After the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, Shao Xun summoned Liu Runzhong at Chongming Temple in Jianshi Palace and comforted him a lot.

Liu Yena did not show up because she was pregnant and was not feeling well.

Her daughter, born in the twelfth lunar month of the tenth year of Yongjia, died of illness in November last year.

This is Shao Xun's second child who died young.

I have never seen many wars, inspections, military training, and government management all year round, but I have been separated by yin and yang, which is a pity.

After seeing Liu Runzhong, he gave him a lot of property from Ningshuo Palace because he heard that Liu Runzhong had bleed a lot for this marriage.

The groom's name is Sun Jue. Although he is not from the Sun family in Zhongdu, his family is not in good condition. He heard that he has been working hard.

Sun Jue was still a concubine's son and wanted to marry a big family, but he had no choice but to be favored by the Sun family in Zhongdu, which was in decline. The whole family had only three or four hundred farmers, and it was extremely deserted.

So, when he was twenty-two years old, he could not get married even if he was too high or too low, but he still failed to get married successfully.

The daughter Liu Runzhong married was a legitimate daughter. She was fifteen years old this year, seven years younger than Sun Jue. She also had a huge family income and a wealthy life.

Although Shao Xun was happy to see such things, he was still shocked when he heard the details.

Some things are not deeply impressed enough without personally experiencing them.

The upstart's crazy clinging to old money reminded him of the obsession of the upstart capitalists in the industrial revolution in the later years. They were so rich that they would not hesitate to bleed heavily and marry aristocratic families whose financial situation was deteriorating.

Forget it, the eldest brother won’t talk about the second brother.

Although he doesn't lick it now, he pays great attention to please women when he started.

What are you doing with Liu Runzhong?

This is the trend of the times. From top to bottom, the whole nation is keen on, and it cannot be reversed by you alone in a short time.

Overall, it probably has improved.

The corrupt old gentry itself has been reshuffled and has undergone a certain degree of renewal.

The land in the hands of the gentry has less population and more resources directly under the imperial court.

The number of gentry has increased, diversified, and its average strength has decreased.

It is not easy to make progress.

After Liu Runzhong left Chongming Temple, he immediately sent someone back to Shangdang to communicate.

Liu Quan, the general of Heqing Town, who was spending the Chinese New Year at home, took charge of his father, counted the family wealth, and selected two hundred slaves, three hundred horses, two thousand cattle, and fifty thousand sheep as dowry.

After the news came back to Pingyang, it caused a huge sensation.

Especially when I heard that the Sun family promised only more than a hundred books, the huge difference between the two added a lot of heat to this marriage.

For a moment, there were those who laughed, those who envyed, those who cursed, and those who thought deeply.

Overall, most people laugh at the Sun family in Zhongdu, saying that they are crazy about money. Isn’t this ruining Sun Jue’s life?

He worked in Taiyuan and supported himself. Others also praised him for his kindness as an ancient benevolent man. What's the point of marrying a Hu girl for money now?

But this is his back house, just a corner of the world.

The peace here doesn't mean anything.

While being in a state of war, you can rest here for a while, release your desires, cultivate your sentiments, and change your mind, but you can't be too nostalgic.

"My grandma, what are you growing in this vegetable field this year?" After Shao Xun finished the soil, he sat behind the special tea table, washed his hands first, then poured himself a bowl of tea, and asked casually.

Yang Xianrong and Liu had a great chat.

In fact, as long as you put down your airs and figure it out, it will be no problem to please Liu with Yangyang's emotional intelligence and insight.

"Of course I have grown leeks in early spring, but unfortunately you won't come back to eat them." Liu complained.

"What have you planted in spring leeks?" Shao Xun asked comfortably, bathed in the cold spring breeze.

"Anything is possible." Liu said, "Maybe let Shangshu Cai help build some bamboo racks and plant courgettes."

Shao Xun almost spit out a sip of tea.

In the dignified hall, Shangshu Cao built a cucumber rack for you?

Yang Xianrong's eyes turned, and his eyes were filled with smiles.

"Plant some okra in autumn and some turnips in late autumn..." Liu counted one by one.

"I brought some late-night seeds from Guangcheng Palace. This thing was cultivated by the Cuiyuan at the foot of Kongtong Mountain." Yang Xianrong said softly: "When the king was in the Lishi Mountain, I sent someone to send a few cars, which was very sweet and refreshing."

"It's really delicious." Shao Xun said.

The hybridization of turnips and ginger can produce many strange things.

In the Spring and Autumn Period, there was "picking vegetables, east of Shouyang", which was the predecessor of vegetables. Without knowing it, the ancestors planted various vegetables, and naturally crossed the vegetables, and then were selected by others by chance and continued to plant them.

During the Han and Wei dynasties, people continued to grow syrup and turnips. Under the long natural hybridization, syrup continued to mutate. By the Western Jin Dynasty, syrup was a leafy vegetable very similar to rapeseed and green vegetables.

During the Northern Wei Dynasty in history, a kind of glutinous rice dish that can experience severe frost suddenly appeared in Luoyang.

Compared with traditional sausage, this product is much larger and is called "big sausage". The color has also changed, no longer pure green, but a little white.

Emperor Xuanwu of Wei sent a boat to Nanliang. After the prince Xiao Tong ate it, he praised it endlessly and wrote "Thank you the Henan Cuisine" and "Thank you the Great Shou" to thank you. Since then, it has become very popular. The style of the big swan and the cabbage of later generations is still very different. It is better to say that it looks like rapeseed or small cabbage than cabbage.

Shao Xun has always wanted to make cabbage.

In ancient times, it was slowly discovered under the long-term natural hybridization process. Sometimes new species even appeared, but were ignored. You should know that seeds will degenerate. In history, some people took southern pineapple vegetables to the north to plant them, and all turned into turnips after two years...

Cuiyuan has been artificially planting turnips and ginger vegetables. It took almost twenty years to create a linger vegetables that can experience the severe frost of winter and are large, and its traits are stable and will not deteriorate.

In this way, there will be another fresh dish on the tables of ordinary people in winter.

"This thing is called 'Little Cabbage' or 'Da Song'. Whichever you think is better, it's called it." Shao Xun put down the tea bowl and said, "It won't be sung for a thousand years when winning a few battles, but Xiao Cabbage will make everyone remember you."

Yang Xianrong covered her mouth and laughed.

She just played with the man, and she just played with him whatever he liked, but she didn't expect that she would really play with something new, and she was also very happy.

"Well, I will plant some big croakers this year, frost and put them away, and wait for you to come back to eat." When he said this, Liu looked at Shao Xun with a earnest gaze.

"Okay." Shao Xun nodded.

Liu smiled happily.

"In a few days--" Yang Xianrong said.

"In a few days, we will have to do some spring plowing with the Huangtou Junmen." Shao Xun said: "After the spring plowing of Pingyang, we will go to Lishi, which is a little later. Kelan, Taiyuan County, planted winter wheat last year, I want to go and see. Maybe I will patrol the river to see if I can find a chance to give Liu Yang and Shile, so that they can't make them comfortable and attack Shuofang without any worries."

"Can the army come back after crossing the river?" Yang Xianrong is not an inexplicable person. She understands military and political affairs, so she asked.

"The army cannot come back, but it is not difficult to get a small group of people. I will transfer the life army and the mule army to come over and play with Shi Le slowly." Shao Xun said.

"Shi Le met you and she would be in trouble for eight lifetimes." Yang Xianrong said with a smile.

"When spring plowing, you will accompany me." Shao Xun said.

Yang Xianrong was first surprised, then nodded lightly, his face blushing a little.

"There is also Wenjun." Shao Xun said again.

Yang Xianrong's face changed suddenly.

Shao Xun pretended to be stupid and didn't see it, drinking tea leisurely.

The spring is warm and the breeze is coming. This lazy atmosphere almost makes people think it is still in a peaceful and prosperous era.

On the fifth day of the second month, the captive army traveled west from Heyang and went forward to Pingyang.

The mule army also began to inspect equipment and sent scouts to several ferries north in advance to investigate in order to formulate a combat plan.

Shao Xunze came to the southern suburbs of Pingyang and began spring plowing.
Chapter completed!