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Volume 1: Who Rides the Star to Break through the Void Chapter 134: You can go to the south of the Yangtze River to accumulate food

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    "Amitabha, Shishilang, you did the right thing." After being silent for a while, the monk Shanzhi suddenly spoke, which shocked Ye Chang.  Ye Chang turned around. The monk was serious, but there was a faint luster on his ugly face.  "What's wrong?" Ye Chang was a little puzzled. He rarely saw this monk looking like this.  "Saving one life is better than building a seven-level pagoda. Although you and I were assassinated outside Chang'an City, we are all safe, but the assassins killed and injured several people." The monk clasped his hands and said: "In this case, our old grievances are not deep. Today we save this  Mother and son also know cause and effect" "It was normal for the monk to talk about cause and effect, but Shan Zhi said it out loud, which made Ye Chang feel a little dumbfounded.  This reckless monk drinks alcohol, eats meat, kills, and is angry. He violates almost all the rules and regulations except for the one of lusting after women. His talk about cause and effect is completely nonsense.  ¡°Moreover, Ye Chang doesn¡¯t care too much about cause and effect.  What he cares about is his own strength. After all, he still lacks strength, status and wealth.  "The general trend of the world is huge, but now it has not been achieved, so I feel stretched everywhere." Ye Chang sighed in his heart. On the one hand, he was really cruel to save Yuan Zai's wife. On the other hand, he was forced by the current situation.  Today, there is no ability to compete with Wang Zhongsi head-on.  If the conflict with Yuan Zai can be resolved, that would of course be the best. If not, the evidence on hand can also protect oneself from the threat of Wang Zhongsi for the time being.  "However, the forceps are the treasures you saw in your dream, Shishilang?" the monk asked again.  He really wondered how Ye Chang even knew about having children. If what he saw in his dream was true, wouldn¡¯t the gods in heaven also have children?  This question was difficult to answer, but Ye Chang thought about it for a while, remembered something, and immediately smiled and said: "It turned out that in my dream, I saw an immortal granting the surname Guan Yuanzi to a Han surname in Shaanxi. Guan Yuanzi and I were in the same dream." The monk believed it to be true.  , I was thinking about when to go to Guanlong, and asked again if there was a Guan Yuanzi named Han nearby who also had Mengxian.  Not long after Ye Chang returned to Wolong Valley, Yuan Zai came here again. However, this trip was to send the doctor and Wen Po back, and to thank them.  At this time, his expression had regained his composure, he was chatting and laughing, and he was very close to Ye Chang, as if the previous disagreement between the two had never happened.  As the saying goes, knowing people but not knowing their hearts, Ye Chang couldn't judge what he was really thinking in his heart. All he could do was to be wary.  Time flies, one month flies by, in the blink of an eye, autumn is gone and winter is coming.  Xiuwu is rich in chestnuts, and this is the season when chestnuts are on the market. Roast chicken with chestnuts is an indispensable addition to Ye Chang's dishes.  On the surface, he lived a very leisurely life, but in reality, he was compiling books on natural mathematics one after another. Zhang Xiu always took a sneak peek at each book he compiled. After reading it, he scratched his head and urged him to add more books.  .  This guy is tied up by Ye Chang. He is not a teaching talent, but he can still teach children simple addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.  The most troublesome thing for Ye Chang was to help him change his habit and use symbols, numbers and abacus instead.  For Zhang Xiu, the former of the two things is not unusual - the so-called Arabic numerals are actually Tianzhu numerals, and his uncle and his party are tantric monks, so they are not too unfamiliar with Tianzhu numbers.  But at the beginning, he really felt that the abacus was not as useful as the abacus. It was not until Ye Chang wrote down the abacus formula in his memory, forced him to memorize it and became proficient, and then gave him new teaching materials that he reluctantly accepted it.  ¡°Other than that, what Ye Chang does is wander around every day.  After September, the weather turned cooler. Ye Chang wondered how long he could eat autumn crabs. He walked towards the village from Pushan Mountain with his hands behind his back. When he arrived at the entrance of the village, he saw a man smiling at him with saliva on his face.  Ye Zhu, his uncle in name only.  Nowadays, Ye Mei has no status at all in the village. Although the Ye family gave him a few acres of thin farmland to make a living, his family is extremely dilapidated. Even his two concubines have been sold by him.  "Eleventh Master." Seeing Ye Chang glance over, Ye Mei greeted with a smile and raised his hand to Ye Chang.  Because he was severely 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 towards the village.  Ye Zhu opened his mouth behind him, wanting to call him back, but when the words came to his lips, he didn't know how to say them.  The original plot against Ye Chang seems to be still vivid in my mind, but in just one year, things have reached this point.  Ye Ming only felt that his mouth was full of bitterness, and he stood blankly at the end of the village without making any move.  Ye Chang walked to the old house of the Ye family in three steps.  Compared with Wolong Valley, where construction is going on, and the research institute, which is intensifying construction, the old house has not changed much. Except for the addition of a fire pit last year, there is almost no movement. "Uncle, uncle, where is the slingshot you promised me?" As soon as I saw the door,  nephewZicinu ran over quickly and shouted excitedly.  "Well, that's it." Ye Chang took out a slingshot and handed it to him.  Xi Nu immediately threw Ye Chang down, and took his little girl to look for his target in the yard. He first hit the branches in the yard, and then went to shoot the birds. Of course, with his current eyesight, it was still difficult to shoot the birds.  of.  Ye Chang looked at his nephew with a smile, feeling that this joy had infected himself.  In life, you can¡¯t live in intrigues all day long. Watching the younger generations grow up happily like this should be the mainstream of life.  Ci Nu fired several rounds of projectiles, but none of them hit him. He ran back yelling and handed the slingshot to Ye Chang.  "Uncle, show me what you're shooting, show me what you're shooting." This kind of beef tendon slingshot is still quite powerful. It has little power, so it's normal that it won't be fully opened and it won't hit the target.  Ye Chang took 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 serving as a flower bowl placed beside the courtyard wall.  He opened the slingshot, took aim for a while, and then fired.  With a "bang" sound, the pottery bowl shattered, the soil inside splashed out, and the flowers that were originally planted also fell into the soil.  Ye Chang stuck out his tongue, and Ci Nu and Xiao Niang next to him also stuck out their tongues: "We got into trouble." After handing the slingshot to Ci Nu, Ye Chang said solemnly: "You only said that the cat broke the pottery bowl, remember?  ?¡± ¡°Yes.¡± Ci Nu and Xiao Niang also nodded seriously, and Xiao Niang added: ¡°The cat is not good.¡± However, a faint fragrance made Ye Chang turn his head and saw his sister-in-law standing in the backyard.  In front of the Moon Gate, he looked angry and funny.  Seeing the three people looking at her, Fang asked in a long voice: "Who broke the pottery bowl I kept the flowers in?" "It's the cat." The young lady protects her uncle the most, so she rushed to answer: "No.  My uncle hit me with a slingshot. Mother, don¡¯t hit my uncle." "You are so stupid, you said it." The slave was in a hurry.  Ye Chang put his hand on his forehead and sighed.  The girl stared at her round and watery eyes with an innocent look on her face: "I didn't say, I didn't say" "You just said" "I didn't say, I really didn't say, I really didn't say it was for my uncle.  Hit with a slingshotwow." The girl hurriedly defended herself, but later Yu Jian started crying.  Ye Chang picked her up and said with a smile: "Don't cry, don't cry. I didn't say anything. My mother didn't know that my uncle used a slingshot to break the pottery bowl she used to grow flowers. If you don't believe me, ask your mother."  Although he was young, he also felt that it seemed a little wrong to ask like this, so he twitched and ignored Ye Chang.  Seeing that she was crying so sadly, Ye Chang suddenly softened his heart and said again: "Brother is not good, let's not play with him anymore Go away, Ci Nu, you can play by yourself." "Uncle is partial," Ci Nu curled his lips,  Then he took the slingshot and ran away.  "Not only do you teach children to hit things with slingshots, but you also teach them to lie. Shiyilang, you are getting worse and worse." Taking the girl from Ye Chang's arms, Fang's eyes were cold and stern, staring at Ye Chang.  She is now more majestic and no longer the gentle sister-in-law she was before.  Over the past year, the family's business has been booming. Although the house has not been renovated, the population has increased.  Not only did he have two more servants, he also invited several families in the village to do odd jobs.  What's more important is that merchants coming and going from Wolong Valley have to go through Fang's hand if they want to buy paper or books.  It can be said that Fang is the God of Wealth of the Ye family. If you have money in your pocket, you will have confidence in your heart and your speech will be different.  "Sister-in-law, forgive me, forgive me." Although Ye Chang apologized with his hands in hand, there was not much apology on his face.  Even if he doesn¡¯t teach, will the child stop being naughty and lying?  Zeng Shen¡¯s teachings to his sons have been passed down through the ages, but why haven¡¯t we heard of any virtues passed down from his son?  When educating children, it is obviously wrong to suppress them. Guidance is the right way.  "You, you, are always deviant." Fang knew him very well, and sighed, not expecting him to change his ways.  "Sister-in-law is right." Ye Chang did not refute.  "Don't show your lazy temper in front of me. If you feel bored, in the past few days, seven or eight large families have come to propose marriage. How about I arrange a blind date?" "Sister-in-law, please forgive me." Ye Chang raised his hands.  road.  "Don't make it official, I'm telling the truth." Madam Fang was nagging quite fiercely: "Set up the marriage first, and we can have a happy event next year. If you don't have a big fortune, you won't get married and have children earlier.  Who will inherit it in the future? " "There is a gift slave and a young lady. From now on, the young lady will be a little rich woman. If someone marries me, tsk tsk" Listening to Ye Chang turning the topic to the innocent-looking young lady, Fang said again  Give him a hard look.  She sighed: "When it comes to business, you don't have a formal attitude. Tell me, what you are doing here today cannot be to send slingshots.""Although the old house has reserved a small courtyard for Ye Chang, Ye Chang rarely comes back to live. He usually stays in Wolong Valley. And because Fang is a widow, he usually does not go to Wolong Valley.  Since Ye Chang is here, he must have something to discuss with her. "I came to see my sister-in-law because I have something to discuss with her.  Ye Chang frowned: "I can't make up my mind. My sister-in-law will help me do some research."  " "That's what you say.  " "I want to send people to Jiangnan to buy houses and land.  " "Jiangnan?  "Fang asked in surprise. "For them, Jiangnan is a very far away place, and it is far less prosperous than the Central Plains of Guanzhong. Although after the Three Kingdoms and Two Jin Dynasties, Jiangnan is now widely populated, but in the hearts of ordinary people, it is still far away from prosperity.  "Well, there are many people in the Central Plains but little land. If you want to accumulate food widely, you have to go to the Jiangnan area.  ¡± The Central Plains area has always been the core of the Chinese Empire, but after the Three Kingdoms and Two Jin Dynasties, Jiangnan also began to develop. Today, the food in the Jianghuai area has become an important pillar of the empire¡¯s taxation, and Hangzhou and other places in the east of the Yangtze River are also increasingly  Prosperity. On the other hand, Jiangnan West Road, although the Han people continued to open up wasteland and cultivate fields, the potential was still not explored. "How much grain do you want to accumulate?"  "Fang asked. "The more, the better, just in case of emergencies.  "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 of the contradictions in the Tang Dynasty were already deeply rooted. Even if there was no Anshi Rebellion in more than ten years, there would be others.  Turmoil. So he said: "Sister-in-law should know that Yuan Zai invited me to go.  " " Now that forceps has been spread, from now on, fewer women will have difficulty giving birth, and the population will grow faster.  Most babies who would have died in childbirth will grow up to be adults.  After ten or twenty years of this, the population will double. If the increase in food cannot keep up, it will be a catastrophe.  "The relationship between population growth and food growth is a very simple truth. Fang understood it as soon as she heard it. She was stunned for a moment, and then said: "How could this be?" Ye Chang also sighed. "Eleventh Lang, although  I don't agree with you helping that Yuan Zai, but this forceps delivery is really an act that benefits all living beings, and it should be a meritorious deed. Why is this so?  " "Misfortune lies on the back of blessing, and blessing lies on the back of misfortune.  " As soon as Ye Chang said this, Fang was speechless. " During the Li and Tang Dynasties, Laozi was regarded as his ancestor, and the Tao Te Ching was even a subject in the imperial examination. Fang was familiar with classics and history, so how could he not understand the meaning of this sentence.  "However, Shiyilang, you still think it's wrong.  "After pondering for a while, Mrs. Fang said again. "Oh, why do you think so, sister-in-law?  " "You have no one to use now. Even if you go to Jiangnan, don't you have to go yourself?  "Fang asked. Ye Chang nodded, that's for sure. It's a big deal. How can he feel at ease if he doesn't go there himself. "Nowadays, it takes one to two months to go from the Central Plains to the south of the Yangtze River, even through the canal waterway.  It takes half a year to go back and forth. How can you keep away from things here for half a year?  " This is a big problem. Canals are the most convenient, but water transportation is slow. If you ride a fast horse and use the developed post roads of the Tang Dynasty, it will be faster to go to Jiangnan. But even so, it will take two or three months to go back and forth.  "You went to Chang'an two days ago. Although you made arrangements, your family affairs were still delayed a lot. Even when your sister gave birth, you didn't come back.  "Fang Shi slightly scolded Ye Chang: "Last time you said that you were going to Mengzhou for a while" "That will happen in the spring of next year. I will not go until the people sent by Princess Yuzhen arrive.  .  Princess Yuzhen promised to lend me two manors in Mengzhou for three years. These two manors have thousands of acres of fertile land.  "Ye Chang had to interrupt her complaint. "Ten thousand acres of fertile land." Fang's eyes suddenly shot out with a fiery light.
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