Kuai Chuan Teaches You To Be a Man

A Rong fell into deep thought while holding his fat cheeks. His father Cao Yaozu in his previous life had just finished reading the letter from his family.

There are two letters in total. One was written by my father. It was mentioned that the rice yield of two thousand catties per mu in Chenxiang was true. On the day of the harvest, the county magistrate Jin was watching from the field.

He also said that the people were not banned that day, and there were many farmers who witnessed it with their own eyes. With their mouths, things were spread all over the place, and the storytellers had new bridges, and the children who were running wild in the streets and alleys were joking and playing. Sing a song. The emperor sings is good, the emperor is wise and only the blessings from the heavens, the blessings from the heavens make Linzhou give birth to living Buddhas, Chen Xianghou has planted potatoes and planted winter wheat, and after planting winter wheat, he has planted sticks. This year, the paddy fields have a bumper harvest. Thousands of pounds!

Who is not envious? Mr. Cao was equally uneasy, but he pretended to be high-profile. In his letter to his son, he affirmed the achievements of the Qiao family, mentioned what he heard from the county magistrate, and heard that Zhou Zhifu had discussed with Chen Xianghou. In the coming year, this super rice will be pushed to the entire Linzhou Prefecture, making Linzhou the granary of the country.

Master Cao is reminding his son to discuss with his husband, and he can't just watch Linzhou increase production.

Compared with him, Fang's letter was much more "sincere".

She didn't hide her anger at all, and told Cao Yaozu that because the surnamed Qiao knew how to farm the land, the emperor gave him the title of a marquis, not to mention that he rewarded him with a mansion at the base of the imperial city. People came from thousands of miles to build another mansion for him, saying that the place was chosen by him, and the layout was determined by him.

and! Qiao Yue's mother and wife were also appointed, and they were super-quality. They are now the women with the highest status in Linzhou, much taller than the prefect's wife.

Fang Shi was indignant and asked in a letter to his son: My son is not as good as a farmer in a village after studying hard for more than ten years?

He also said: Since marrying into Qiao's family, your cousin has never been to the gate of our Cao mansion. I used to see me calling my aunt affectionately, but now she has turned her face and refused to recognize anyone, and she is a real philistine!

She also said to her son earnestly, "Yaozu, it doesn't matter if your mother is a little wronged now, it's up to you whether you can raise your eyebrows in the future."

...

This letter was heavy enough that Cao Yaozu was almost out of breath. He put down the letter and sat quietly for a while with his eyes closed. Suddenly, he heard a creaking sound, and he felt that there was more light in front of him. When he opened his eyes, he saw his wife who came in with a soup cup.

Yes, Cao Yaozu was already married, and with Qiao Yue, he married the daughter of Lord You, the prefect of Cenzhou, and then got an official position in Cenzhou.

This marriage is not very good for the Cao family, because the rank of the two parents is too different, and it is not right to be in the same household. You are from the fourth grade, what about Master Cao? He is eighth grade.

Even if there is no express provision, generally speaking, when talking about kissing, the man must be a little taller, so that he can hold down his wife and avoid excessive yin. Cao Yaozu's ability is so great that he fascinated Miss You, but he also made his father recognize his talent, and made the marriage a success.

I heard that they had a good relationship between the two surnames. Others congratulated them face to face, and they were gossiping behind their backs. They all said that Cao Yaozu was interested in the help that the Yue family could give him, and he didn't want to face it in order to ride the east wind. Cao Yaozu put a lot of effort into correcting his own reputation, and in order to make the Yue family willing to open the way for him, he even put a lot of hard work on his wife.

The former Miss You and now Mrs. Cao can be said to be infatuated with her husband. She feels that Cao Yaozu is the same to her, but she doesn't.

Cao Yaozu was hesitant to see Mr. You carrying the soup cup into the study. He stood up, took the cup and put it aside, grabbed his wife's white weeds, and said warmly, "Didn't you say you don't have to do these things? Why don't you listen?"

"Xiang Gong has worked hard and wants you to take a break with soup."

Cao Yaozu said that reading letters was not tiring.

Mr. You walked around to the desk, picked up the letter Cao Yaozu put down, and read silently with his head down. She read it intently, not noticing the flash of impatience in the man's eyes.

Recently, Cao Yaozu felt that the prefect's daughter was not as good as his cousin.

He said earlier, don't give food to the study, the study is a holy place for students and should not be defiled at will, and she would not listen. More than that, no matter if you are really busy or fake, no matter what you are doing, if she wants to find someone, she will find someone. She never needs to ask herself to take your things, and the letter is so private that she can read it. This temperament is something You Family is used to. If you say it nicely, it is called charming and straightforward, and if you say it badly, it is unruly and willful.

Cao Yaozu remembered that when he was in Kangping a few years ago, his cousin came to live in the mansion. The rude mouth of her cousin hurt more people than anyone else, but she was not like You, at least she would not ask or inquire about other people's affairs at will, no Move other people's things silently.

Originally, he felt that he was only a few years old, so he didn't have to be impatient, but he couldn't bear it with You Shi. Coupled with the excitement of Qiao Yue, Cao Yaozu was thinking about how to step up his pace. Going out, you have to find a way to enter Beijing.

Cao Yaozu was distracted. Mrs. You had read the letter from Mrs. Fang to her son. She turned around and asked, "Is there a cousin?"

"The deceased aunt had a daughter, a little older than you, who married Chen Xianghou as his wife."

Mrs. You remembered that she seemed to have heard someone mention it, and asked again, "Could my cousin be with us?"

Cao Yaozu thought about it for a while, and he should say that it was okay.

Mr. You was very curious and asked him what was the misunderstanding?

Cao Yaozu felt that there would be people who were jealous of him who would reveal the matter of going to Linzhou to seek marriage, and it would be better for him to tell him than to wait for others to add fuel to it.

He used a calm tone to beautify the filthy things that the Cao family did to You. She said that her cousin lost her mother when she was young, and there was no elder in her family to teach her. Her mother took pity on her and took her to live in a small house. After living for a while, she gave birth to her niece and son. "If it weren't for the accident that happened later, this might have happened, but the world is fickle, and the farmer in the countryside who admired his cousin turned into a prince. He followed to propose a marriage. I walked around. My cousin and I were blue and white, and it didn't matter who she married. Every time my mother thought about it, she couldn't get over it, and she felt uncomfortable. "

Cao Yaozu is a person who has the ability to speak out things that are too fake to be more fake, so that you can believe them as soon as you hear them.

Even if others tell you that this is not the case, you still believe him, thinking that other people are jealous of your relationship and want to do bad things.

The statement he made by himself is not perfect, there are loopholes, but You believed it. She didn't want to scrutinize it at all, she only cared about one thing: what did Cao Yaozu think about his cousin.

When Mrs. You asked, Cao Yaozu said that his cousin came to the residence for a month or two, and he met three or four times in total.

"At that time, I was busy preparing for the second year's township examination. How could I think about men and women? My mother asked me if there was a woman I liked, I should say no, and she asked if I would marry my cousin, saying that my cousin was mourning Mother is not easy to talk about relatives, I didn’t know you at that time, and I didn’t have anyone I liked, so I said yes. But fate is set, and my cousin and I were ultimately missed. I agreed at the time, but the happy event didn’t happen.”

You's heart is sour and sweet, the sourness is almost someone else's, and the sweetness is in his magnanimous attitude, it can be seen that he really has nothing to do with that cousin.

You asked, "What's your cousin's last name?"

"The last name is Yu."

You asked again, "How does she look like?"

"Others say yes, in my opinion it is far inferior to Qingqing."

You Shi was delighted, and threw himself into Cao Yaozu's arms and said, "My mother treats my cousin so well, but she has lost her conscience, and she should always be punished."

A little worried, she raised her head and said, "Cao Lang, do you think my mother doesn't like me?"

"Mother loves me the most, but she won't be embarrassed for anything I like. Don't worry about it."

...

Cao Yaozu coaxed his wife, Mrs. You, to get it right, and followed up with a letter to his husband, detailing the situation of rice farming in Linzhou. Before sending the letter, he asked his wife if he had something to bring to his mother-in-law, and Mrs. You thought about it. Thinking about it, he also wrote a letter, in which he mentioned that it was too tedious to let Yaozu slowly climb up from the county magistrate? Mrs. You asked her mother to talk to her father to see if she could be promoted. It would be very aggrieved to be the wife of the seventh-grade sesame official.

When marrying a daughter-in-law, you can't just look at the family background, the brain is also very important.

But he said that You Shi clearly wanted to help her man, but he never thought of sending this letter out, but it was a hindrance.

She said in the letter that she was a prefect before, but now she is the magistrate's wife. What I wanted to express was that a woman should marry her husband, and her husband should have a wife, but she didn't understand what she wrote. Her mother opened the letter and thought it was wrong.

You Zhifu read the letter sent by his son-in-law and sent someone to Linzhou to inquire about the new method of growing rice. When he turned around, he was stopped by his wife and told him not to promote Cao Yaozu so quickly, so that his son-in-law would not be able to control him after a few years of promotion.

You Zhifu asked what happened?

His wife also wiped away tears, saying how nicely Cao Yaozu said when he begged them to marry her daughter, and how long did it take to say that she would never let her daughter suffer a little bit of suffering? But within a year, her daughter wrote back and cried and complained that her life was not good, and she suffered a lot of grievances with Cao Yaozu.

"I really believed that he was good! I didn't expect that he used all his mind to fool us, so he didn't give more points to his daughter... Think about it, sir, others would dare to treat our daughter badly when they were still in Cenzhou, and if they flew him out, I don't know what the situation will be in the future, you can't promote him so quickly, you can only press him for a few years."

You Zhifu asked his wife, did her daughter really cry on the letter?

His wife nodded sharply and said that it was still fake?

You Zhifu originally planned to help his son-in-law when he had the opportunity, but Cao Yaozu would not even do a good job in acting.

Not only that, when the people sent to Linzhou came back with news that the increase in rice production in Linzhou depended on rice seeds rather than new methods of planting. You Zhifu felt sullen, thinking that Cao Yaozu was the son of the Kangping county magistrate, could he not know about it? He knew that copying other people's methods was useless, yet he wrote such a letter. Isn't that fooling people?

Cao Yaozu suggested that You Zhifu send someone to Linzhou, not to let him steal the new method of growing rice, but to let him talk to Zhou Zhifu to see if he could get some rice seeds back. After all, it has to wait for the court to promote it, and it may not be possible to wait a year or two. Now only Chen Xiang Qiao Yue can produce seeds. How can the court force him? Didn't you see that the emperor said in the imperial decree that it was all up to him to arrange for the officials to cooperate?

You Zhifu couple is also absolutely perfect.

The prefect was because his son-in-law didn't explain things too thoroughly, which made him miss the key points. According to the previous habit of planting potatoes, winter wheat and sticks, he thought that this time would be the same, but the result was not.

The prefect's wife misunderstood her daughter's meaning. As soon as they communicated, they felt bad. I'm afraid this Cao Yaozu is not a white-eyed wolf? ? ?

This latest discovery made You Zhifu miserable, and he even angered his nephew, thinking that it was he who got acquainted with Cao Yaozu that led the wolf into the house. Regardless of Weng's husband-in-law's affection, You Zhifu wrote back and scolded Cao Yaozu, saying that the young man was frivolous, and he wrote a letter without inquiring clearly, asking him if he thinks rice can be harvested six times by improving the cultivation method? You want beautiful!

When Cao Yaozu received the reply, he looked inexplicable. He asked Mr. You what he wrote in the letter last time, and how did his mother-in-law reply?

Mrs. You was still shy and said, "I'll ask my mother to help you talk and give my father the opportunity to promote you more. Cao Lang, I know that you will be able to rise to the fore sooner or later with your own abilities, I just want to help you, don't blame me. "

Cao Yaozu:  …

It shouldn't be!

That's not right!

From this time, until the weather turned cold and the whole winter passed, Cao Yaozu did not wait for his husband's promotion. At the end of the year, he took You Shi back to his mother's house and was reprimanded by his husband.

You Zhifu beat him and said that you are promising, but you are not the only young person in the world who has the ability. ...You Zhifu said a lot, and finally let Cao Yaozu think about it. Cao Yaozu wondered for half a year, and then he finally grasped the key. It turned out that the problem was still with You?

Thinking of what I once asked her to write to her mother-in-law? She said to ask her mother-in-law to blow the pillow wind.

Now it seems that it's not fake to blow the pillow, but the content is not like she said that it is promotion, but suppression, right?

At this time, Mrs. You was complaining to her mother, saying why instead of being promoted, she kept reprimanding Cao Lang again and again? Her mother looked inexplicable and said, "It's not your daughter, you wrote back and let your mother decide? Didn't you say that Cao Yaozu treated you badly?"

You Shi was furious: "When did I write such a letter?"

Her mother told her not to worry, sit down and talk slowly. It was only when she sat down, and the time when the rice yielded 2,000 catties per mu, the letter clearly stated that she used to be a prefect of the prefecture, and she was fine, but now it is not good for her to marry into the Cao family.

You:  …

Mad! Really **** off!

"Where am I complaining about Cao Lang? I want to tell you that I am now the wife of a seventh-rank sesame official. Others look down on me and are not as polite to me as they used to be. They are still gossiping behind my back... How do you understand that? What did you tell my dad?"

"Don't be angry! Dear daughter, don't be angry! Is it okay for your mother to be wrong? Your mother will turn around and talk to your father, and let him follow along and bring up the son-in-law?"

Mrs. You was so angry that she cried, she turned around and apologized to Cao Yaozu, saying that she didn't make it clear in the letter that her mother would be wrong, but she explained it clearly, this time it will be no problem.

Cao Yaozu said nothing to her face, and told her not to cry, only when she closed the door, her face turned pale.

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Cenzhou and Linzhou are actually connected to each other. It is not too far away. I heard that the new rice seeds are suitable for planting in the surrounding area. The farmers in Cenzhou rejoiced and felt that they would be the first to benefit.

The results of it?

From the harvest of the experimental field in early July to the issuance of the imperial decree, to the spread of the good news all over the world, to the beginning of autumn and the whole winter, there is still no news from the Yamen side, and there is no notification of where to buy the new rice seeds. The farmers were very impatient. There was a lot of talk in Cenzhou, and some people even stopped the official's car and asked about it. As a result, the Yamen said that they should be allowed to farm normally.

Normal farming? It means you don't have to worry about this season, no?

"Didn't you say that the surrounding area is suitable for planting? Why not?"

"Sir, think about it, you have pity on us!"

"Cenzhou and Linzhou are so close together, they can harvest thousands of kilograms per mu in June and July. A piece of field is worth three or four dollars. How can we grow this land?"

The farmers are going to kneel down and kowtow. The harvest is so poor that they can't plant it! Really can't plant!

You Zhifu has not been going out recently, and the closer to the beginning of spring, the more farmers are blocking their sedan chairs, and this trend cannot be stopped. Cao Yaozu also had a headache. He went to ask about the book, but his father replied that it was not easy to do.

The government has a record and knows how many good and bad fields there are in each county. The yamen has published a list, notifying all the farmers in Linzhou that only good fields can grow hybrid rice, and they will also notify the various preparations before planting, so that they can plough the fields. . As for the rice seeds, the county government will send people to Chenxiang to collect the rice seeds. How many good fields are there in the county to get the corresponding rice seeds, but not many. The farmers who have good fields at home can take the deed to the county government to collect the seeds. The court is kind-hearted. In the trial planting, the rice seeds will be sent first, but this year, the fertile fields in Linzhou will pay an extra 10% of the tax to offset the seed money.

The yamen also said that this year, considering that some farmers could not afford to buy seeds temporarily, they came up with the idea of ​​deducting the money from the tax after the first harvest of rice seeds. This may not be the case next year.

Although it was said that the tax would be temporarily increased, the farmers in the townships were still happy. They were still worried before, but now it can be said that the Linzhou government is the first to benefit. The counties have sent people to Chenxiang, and the farmers have also dug out the fields. Qi and other yamen carried back the rice seeds.

What Yamen brought back was not only rice seeds, but also agricultural specialists who had witnessed the birth of hybrid rice and knew the scientific rice planting process. These agricultural commissioners were originally assigned by the imperial court to Qiao Yue to help him, and they will be stationed in various townships to guide rice cultivation in the next six months. Have to receive eight hundred dry grains.

The agricultural commissioners are under great pressure and strong motivation. They all regard this time as a test given by Qiao Yue. They are gearing up to hope that the county they are responsible for will have the best harvest, and only when they come back can they be reused.

They are not fools. I can see that this is just the beginning. Farming is a big question. If you really want to study it, it will not be enough for a lifetime.

After Cao Yaozu figured out the cause and effect, he planned to go to Chen Township in person. He wanted to ask for orders for the people and ask Qiao Yue to take out the excess rice seeds. He doesn't believe there's not much, he thinks there must be! Since there is! Why not take it out to benefit everyone?

I heard that Cao Yaozu was going to Linzhou, and Mrs. You also said that she wanted to go with her. She wanted to meet her cousin who was arrogant and greedy for wealth. Said I wanted to greet my in-laws.

You believed what Cao Yaozu said, and really thought that the mother-in-law he liked would like it, but she didn't think that the mother-in-law and the daughter-in-law were less jealous? Fang expected his son to be the first to be filial to her, but Cao Yaozu spared a little time to accompany You, after all, You was related to his future.

It is hard to say how long the mother can endure for the sake of her son.