For the sake of the divine food given by heaven, His Majesty the Emperor held a massive sacrifice ceremony, and also asked the most identifiable priests in the court to be responsible for divination and communicate with the gods.

Finally, the immortal-like priest was on the high altar and the word "jade" was created.

His Majesty the Emperor said, this is the sixth valley given to the world by the gods, called "Jade".

Under the altar, everyone worshiped.

Within a day, this incident spread throughout the city of Chang'an. In ancient times, Shennong passed on the grains. Today, the gods gave them the Sixth Valley again. What a sacred and exciting thing.

The people in the city were excited and ran around to tell each other. Another mailing official rode a horse and ran out of Chang'an City, sending this good news to various prefectures and counties.

If nothing unexpected happens, the court decided to sow the corn immediately after the spring next year. When the summer harvest is reached, officials from all over the country can go to Chang'an City to collect seeds. If it is a southern prefecture and counties, hurry up and planting can start that year.

Perhaps some people will say that Li Shimin's move is too risky. For this kind of grain that I have never seen before, it should be a few rounds, and then decide whether to promote it.

But what is absolutely safe in this world? Especially as a superior, he is always facing various risks. Soldiers are very important, and risks always coexist with opportunities. Only by daring to advance can we constantly open up new situations. If we ask for safety and stability in everything, we will be afraid that we will be forced into a dead end.

At this time, there was a joyful scene in Chang'an City, but on the southwest border, the soldiers were fighting bloody battles. Tuyuhun Khan named Fu Yun. He accepted the plan of King Tianzhu and attacked Guzhou and Lanzhou on the border of the Tang Dynasty. It was the throat of the Central Plains to the Western Regions and the Hexi Corridor.

Fu Yun and his ministers believed that the Tang Dynasty's national strength was very weak now and would definitely not fight with them at this time. After all, even if Tuyuhun was defeated, it would be of no benefit to the Tang Dynasty.

There is a reason why they think so. Tuyuhun is located in the southwest, about in Qinghai, south of Gansu, and northwest of Sichuan, between the Tang Dynasty and Tubo. Most of the places they occupied are located on the plateau.

Compared with the Central Plains, these places are not suitable for farming at all, and the Han people cannot adapt to the life there.

Under this consideration, they chose to start a war, and the Tang Dynasty's counterattack was also fierce.

This is not a truly peaceful era. War exists at all times. There are enemies around the Tang Dynasty. Everyone fights each other. In fact, it doesn’t matter whether it is evil or justice. For the people of the Tang Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty is justice, and the same is true for Tuyuhun.

Now that the opponent has already been attacked, the Tang Dynasty must not refuse to fight back. However, even if it is occupied, it is useless and difficult to defend.

If he was kept, it would be a buffer between the Tang Dynasty and the Tubo, so in the end, this war against Tuyuhun would probably be a surrender.

So this time, the reason why Li Shimin had to make such a big fuss about the crops was probably because of two considerations. On the one hand, it was naturally to consolidate his dominance in the country. If he was not the real emperor, how could God give the divine food?

On the other hand, it is naturally to promote the power of the Tang Dynasty. Just like this battle of Tuyuhun, if Tuyuhun was afraid of the power of the Tang Dynasty, he would definitely not dare to start a war easily.

I think the reason why Luo Yong chose to take out the corn seeds first was its drought-tolerant and barren-tolerant and very high-yield properties. With this kind of food, many people should be able to avoid hunger.

But when it came to Li Shimin's hands, these seemingly harmless seeds immediately turned into a powerful weapon, which can be united in people's hearts and can be powerful in the world on the outside.

For a moment, it seemed as if the whole world began to boil, and everyone was talking about the Sixth Valley named "Yu", curious about the difference between it and hemp, millet, sorghum, wheat and beans.

I heard that the Sixth Valley is very productive and can grow one person tall. Just sow a small seed and you can harvest a lot of handfuls. This matter is serious...

For a time, someone praised His Majesty the emperor's high moral character and great talent, and was a king who was truly favored by God. How many of these voices were spontaneously formed by the people and how many were deliberately promoted out of political needs, ordinary people do not know.

Li Shimin is naturally a magnanimous person, and Luo Yong is not too bad. The seeds he planted earlier have sprouted silently at this time.

At this moment, on a section of the official road more than 20 miles north of Wenxi County, Jiangzhou, a group of people were resting in several grass pavilions on the side of the road. It was strange that there were no villages in front of this place and there were no shops behind the villages. I don’t know when there were so many grass pavilions. I saw two postmen eating here just now. I thought it wasn’t a black shop. Besides, they were so crowded that they were not afraid of anything.

The group was tired of walking at this time, so they stopped to rest here. Although the low table in the grass pavilion was a bit rough, it was much better than the Mutianxi. If they thought the meadow on the Hu bed was too rough and not clean enough, they would just lay a mat and sit there.

The brine cooked in the yard of this shop was so delicious that the servants were so hungry that they swallowed their saliva. When a woman in the pavilion saw it, she told them to use some food and eat enough to continue on the road. There are still many roads to go ahead.

So those irrelevant people went to eat, and only a few adults and children remained sitting in the pavilion outside. They came to support their spirits, and the dead were their families. They were in the mourning period and could not eat meat.

"Madam, you can eat some corn porridge to make your stomach." The shop was thoughtful, and while arranging his two brothers to prepare meals for the others, he and his wife brought a few bowls of corn porridge and a few side dishes to him.

"What oil is placed in your dish?" The woman asked when she saw the stack of vegetables brought by the other party was faintly glossy.

"It's soybean oil. Even if the woman has no worries, there are also fermented beans from Lishi County, which are also made of beans." The couple of shops respectfully arranged the porridge and dishes, and then left respectfully, and did not stay here for too long.

Yang took three daughters to eat in the pavilion here, while the two sons born to the Samurai in the early stage were in another pavilion next to them, and the store also delivered hot porridge and side dishes to them.

This wilderness shop looks inconspicuous, and the food they make is delicious. With just a few side dishes, Yang's mother and daughter finished all the hot porridge, warmed the stomach, and felt much more comfortable. The weather was colder one day, and it was about to start snowing. The more you walked north, the colder the weather became...

About ten days later, Luo Yong, who was in Xipo Village, received a stack of letter paper. The sender was his disciple Wu You, the store selling brine on the official road near Wenxi County.

On this stack of letter paper, everything was recorded in a lot of things in a slight tone, and it was like a chattering between the master and the apprentice. This was not the first time Luo Yong received such a letter. It looked quite relieved. Occasionally, it was like picking treasures, and he could find one or two useful information from it.

Like this time, Wu You mentioned the wife and children of Wu Shiyan. Luo Yong searched it in it and only found a description about the second daughter of the Wu family: "... the eldest daughter is quiet, the second daughter is steady, the younger daughter is less than ten years old..."

Luo Yong calculated it in his mind. It is said that Wu Zetian entered the palace when he was fourteen years old in Zhenguan. Now he is still the ninth year of Zhenguan, which is the twelve year of Xuzhou. If he was the real age, he would be just ten years old and eleven years old.

If you think about Li Shimin's age, he was almost forty years old at that time.

"Tsk, I'm so embarrassed to speak." Luo Yong curled his lips.

There are many distortions and false records in history. After all, she became a female emperor in a patriarchal society, and history is recorded by men. Luo Yong does not think that all men can have such a broad mind, not to mention that in those bloody battles, she has set countless enemies for herself.

Later, many people said that Li Shimin did not choose a good heir for himself because Li Zhi was too cowardly, so he was controlled by Wu Zetian.

In Luo Yong's opinion, it is really not a fault for Li Shimin. During Li Zhi's reign, the overall national strength of the Tang Dynasty was still on an overall upward trend, and its territory also expanded. As for Wu Zetian, who could have imagined that the civil and military officials in the court could not deal with a female sermon.

However, no matter what kind of person Wu Zetian will become in the future, whether she will be decisive or cruel, at the beginning, as a thirteen or fourteen-year-old girl, she was innocent and full of fantasy for love and full of expectations for the future. Was she really willing to serve an old man in her forty years?

Luo folded the letter papers and put them in his sleeves. He was not interested in reading them again for a while.

"Brother! Brother! Come! Come!" At this time, Goro, who was not far away, shouted and jumped at him.

"!" Luo Yong grinned and looked at the ditch on the roadside where everyone had dug together and applied cement. At this time, not far from him, a clear stream flowed quickly along the ditch, carrying a fresh breath in front of him. Before Luo Yong could react, the stream had passed the ditch beside him and rushed towards the direction of the cement workshop.

When he was repairing this ditch, after some discussion, Xu Erlang and his team finally decided to draw water from the sheep pen because the water flow in the stream is large and stable.

They dug a trench from a hillside there to divert water, lowered the height bit by bit along the mountain, and meandered along the way, flowing through the dirt roadside in front of the Xu family's house, then passed through the entrance of the village, and flowed to the cement workshop. After passing through rows of sinks, they finally merged into a small stream next to them.

After the ditch is repaired, it not only ensures the water use of the cement workshop and the future Eucommia Gum workshop, but also ensures the water use of the Xu family's guesthouse.

The mountain stream water is directly guided from the stream ditch on the hillside, and it does not pass through the sheep pen. It is directly led here. The water quality is very clean and can be used directly to wash rice and vegetables.

"In the future, our clothes can be washed here, which is much more convenient than being by the well." Er Niang reached out to catch the clear water in the ditch and said happily.

"That's natural." After all, the well water still has to be lifted from the well. Unlike this ditch, the clear water flows over itself.

"From this section, all the way to the east of the entrance of the village, wash wherever you like." The aunt and Lin Wulang also came out to watch the fun at this time.

If it were the convenience of cement, it was not so easy for them to dig a ditch in the past. Look at the clean inside of the ditch, there was no mud or sand at all. The clear and bright stream flowed lightly, which was so gratifying.

Xu Erlang and the others thought at the beginning. They built a narrow passage in the open space opposite the ditch. The narrow passage was also smeared with cement and connected to one of the ditch walls of the ditch to form a slightly gentle slope. It was great to wash clothes on it. Squatting across the ditch, even if there were people coming and going on the road here, there would be no obstacles.

At this time, the wife of the Xu family also took a lot of vegetables from the store to clean it. When the women in the village heard the news, they all came here with baskets to wash their clothes.

The people who wash vegetables are upstream and the people who wash clothes are downstream, squatting one by one by one by one by the ditch. The streams in the ditch are flowing rapidly, and they can quickly take away the filth and wash away the distance. Even if they wash clothes downstream, they don’t feel that there is anything unclean.

Toward the east of the entrance of the village, the cement workshop passed by some flat ground, and there were long troughs distributed between the sinks. There was about three feet wide cement pavement for people to walk on.

These sinks are the place to wash Eucommia ulmoides. On this day, Luo Yong and his disciples dug a batch of Eucommia ulmoides leaves that were first filled out from the fermentation pond next to them and put them in one of the sinks. Considering that the degree of rotten these leaves was not too high, he used his feet and a wooden stick to beat them to completely break them, and then he opened a trench and put them in clean water.

These sinks are connected to each other, and the height is slightly different. After the first selection of the above sink, these Eucommia ulmoides must enter the second sink for the second and third selection. While removing impurities, they are also working hard to reduce the loss of gelatin and strive to use limited Eucommia leaves to select as many Eucommia ulmoides as possible.

They will still need to spend a lot of time exploring the selection technology of Eucommia ulmoides in the future, and believe that the efficiency will always be higher and higher.

Luo Yi reached out and groped carefully in the sink, and indeed felt that there was some smooth gum in the mixture of leaves and water in the sink.

As long as you wash out these gums, first remove some of the water by precipitation, then you can put them in a pot and cook them. Finally, you should get a pot of thick and suitable Eucommia ulmoides. Just pour them into the abrasive tool and cool them to get the shape you want. Luo Yong’s most wanted to make at the moment is naturally the sole.
Chapter completed!