How can we compare with peasant girls?

However, how could they disobey the emperor's orders? They had no choice but to go to the paddy fields and work.

The historian beside him hurriedly wrote: In the 13th year of the Yuanqing reign (1024), the Emperor Tang went on a night tour to supervise the people's rice harvest. He ordered the Minister of Rites Zhang Dongzheng (Jingguo, a second-rank Minister of Rites) and other officials, both high and low, to go to the paddy fields...

Eunuch Yang, who was sitting beside the bamboo bed, secretly wiped away a tear.

If Your Majesty could remain like this, wouldn't it be a blessing for the people? It was as if the high-spirited Crown Prince of yesteryear had returned. If it weren't for that incident, Your Majesty would never have become the tyrant everyone reviled.

If His Majesty changes his mind as a result of this trip, then he will be doing justice to the late emperor...

General Meng Fang was also nearby. He had deployed his troops very carefully. He didn't send all five thousand of his men out to harvest the rice, but instead arranged them to lurk in groups of two or three around the area to avoid being caught. Another two hundred or so soldiers worked all night to build threshing machines.

Not only General Meng is here, but also hundreds of guards. Their task is to protect Baili Tang's safety and they don't need to do any work.

Why not in the palace? If he were in the palace, if a group of thousands of bandits came, a few hundred people would not be enough, and thousands of soldiers would not be able to rush back to rescue him immediately.

What's more, there are countless killers and spies lurking around.

"My lord, we can take advantage of the midnight when Baili Tang's thousands of elite soldiers are exhausted and launch a surprise attack."

"withdraw."

"Why?"

"Bai Li Tang's actions have won the hearts of the people. If we seize the opportunity to kill him, it will be difficult to silence the people's complaints. Keep a close eye on Man'er and don't let him do anything reckless."

"Yes, my lord!"

"Also, tell Jia Shidao to find a way to get a threshing machine."

"My Lord, Jia Shidao said he still has a way to get rid of the tyrant!"

"He still dreams of using lightning to strike the tyrant emperor? The probability of this happening is extremely small. If he fails once, there's no chance of it happening again."

It seems that Jia Shidao did not tell this person the principle of being struck by lightning.

In the fields, Zhang, Wang and other adults were almost in tears.

Especially the usually pampered Lord Wang, who first stepped on a rice fish, then an eel and a water snake! !

He was so scared that he started screaming!

"Your Majesty, I beg to go up!"

"No! Anyone who violates this will be punished with fifty strokes of the cane!"

Who made me a tyrant?

The sky is full of stars tonight, denser than in previous nights.

After working until the third watch, which was a little after 1am, Baili Tang ordered everyone to go back and rest, and continue the "battle" tomorrow. Tomorrow's daytime would be the most tense time.

In addition, the lighting at night is very poor, which means the result is half the effort and twice the result.

(Explanation: Don’t doubt it. I tried it myself when I was a kid. I can harvest rice at night. The speed is just very slow, which will affect the work the next day.)

But tonight, in the space of three or four hours, nearly 100,000 laborers in the entire Xiyun County have harvested tens of thousands of acres of rice (unthreshed).

The next day, the sun rose as usual.

Looking at the weather, it doesn't look like it's going to rain.

Baili Tang also got up early. This morning, he only ate a bowl of porridge. Then, after returning to the fields, he ordered his men to catch rice shrimp and rice fish, which he had the imperial chef roast for dinner.

Asking him to help harvest the rice is a mistake—I am the ruler of a country. He is here to "abuse his power." Fortunately, this is not the age of self-media, otherwise he would be penned to death.

He's a tyrant now, who dares to speak out? Hehe!

Officials such as Zhang Dongzheng also got up early today and took the initiative to go to the fields to work.

And yesterday, the elite soldiers and a group of craftsmen of the Mengfang faction were simply unstoppable and made eighty-seven threshing machines!

In this backward era, you can imagine how crazy this is!

More than eighty threshers rumbled in the fields.

Despite the scorching heat, it did not stop people from rushing to harvest rice.

Some people are responsible for harvesting the rice, some are responsible for carrying it to the open space on the ridges of the fields, a group of three is responsible for threshing the rice with a thresher, and one person is responsible for packing the rice in the thresher barn into sacks.

I only heard Master Zhang say with a smile: "Although I have traveled all over the famous mountains and rivers of Jing State, I have never been to a paddy field."

Lord Wang also smiled and said, "If it weren't for your majesty's order, I would not have been able to experience this kind of pleasure."

To be honest: I’m afraid of being beaten!!

About an hour later, Jia Shidao came running over crying, "Your Majesty, Your Majesty, why didn't my family get a threshing machine?"

Not to mention that his lord sent someone to ask him to get one last night. He had witnessed the "power" of this thing with his own eyes. It is a magical tool for threshing rice!

Seeing the official's face covered in sweat, Baili Tang showed mercy and rewarded him with a grilled fish. He was afraid that the official's time was running out.

Because the building had been renovated yesterday, he could move in anytime.

"What do you need a threshing machine for if you haven't worked yet?"

"Your Majesty, my humble family..."

"Shut up! If you say another word, you'll be punished!"

What else could he do? Jia Shidao quickly took his leave and went back eating the delicious grilled fish.

Little did he know that this was the first time he ate something given by the emperor, and it was also the last time in his life that he ate this extremely delicious rice fish.

At 4 p.m., the sky suddenly darkened, and Baili Tang returned to the palace.

All the officials, guards and elite soldiers who were working were asked to withdraw.

Although Mr. Zhang was reluctant to leave, he still had to go back. He thought to himself that if it didn't rain tomorrow, he would come back to experience it again.

There were suddenly more clouds in the sky.

However, there will be no thunder during a typhoon because the wind is very fast and the entire typhoon is a low-pressure cyclone. Clouds with different charges can exchange electrons quickly, so no lightning will be generated.

It's not typhoon rain that usually produces thunder and lightning, but convective rain. Convective rain is formed when hot and cold air currents converge in the air. The cold and hot air currents carry different positive and negative charges, and when they collide, they produce thunder and lightning.

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