Chapter 322: Hongmen Banquet

Zhong Limin came back from a stroll and saw Bai Gusheng twisting and turning on the stool while writing, as if there were nails on his butt.

When he saw him coming, Bai Gusheng immediately perked up: "Come on, I'm busy, Zhong Xiaoli, come and help her write!!"

He picked him up without saying a word and threw him directly onto the stool.

Zhong Limin could only take the pen: "What do you want to write?"

Xinbao rolled his eyes and looked at him: "Can you write? Are you good at writing?"

Zhong Limin laughed.

He looks extremely gentle and graceful, and when he smiles, one feels as if tenderness is flowing through his eyelashes.

But he smiled and said, "You came to see Mr. Bai, which means your wife is not at home. You have no choice. Even if my writing is not good, you can only make do with it."

That's right! Xinbao nodded: "Okay then."

While playing with the magic ball, she continued, "...you can choose the two-ridge-one-ditch planting method, that is, add a ridge seedling belt every other ditch to facilitate ventilation, light transmission, and more sunlight... In addition, you must practice crop rotation, that is, when planting, you can plant corn, soybeans, and wheat, three fields in rotation, don't plant the same crop or alternate crops..."

Zhong Limin didn't ask a single question and just lowered his head to record.

Ever since he knew that Tuanzi was Bai Gusheng's master, he no longer found anything she did strange.

Xinbao spoke very quickly, and in less than an hour, he had listed all the common food crops.

Because many methods cannot be done nowadays; some methods have been mentioned in previous agricultural books; some methods have little effect on increasing yield and quality; or they are difficult to operate; or they are easy to make mistakes... She omitted all of them.

Some of them were forgotten at the time, but when I remembered them while talking, I could just delete them, so in the end I said less.

After finishing her words, she took a break and slowly thought about what else she could write.

In fact, previous agricultural books, such as "Qimin Yaoshu", not only wrote about grains, but also vegetables, fruit trees, and even mulberry silkworms, livestock, poultry, wine making, and sauce making...

She suddenly realized that she was not well-educated at all! Because she only knew about plants!! She didn’t know about animals at all!! She was so biased and only loved plants. Even the medicine she used was more plant-based!! She rarely used animals such as tiger bones and snake gallbladders as medicine. Since she entered the industry, she was often lectured by her predecessors and laughed at by experts and laymen. Of course, in the end, they were all defeated by her efficacy and her face was swollen.

So, like the knowledge of raising pigs and fish, she only knew some superficial knowledge that modern people know, and had no idea about the deeper knowledge!!

This is what it means to regret not having read enough books when you need them!

She was shocked by this fact, her eyes widened, and she murmured after a while, "So Xinbao is so stupid?"

Seeing that she was lost in thought, Zhong Limin put down his pen and went to the side to get some tea. After strolling around, he came back feeling quite thirsty.

So Xinbao was surprised for a while, and when he turned around, he found that he was drinking tea.

Xinbao looked at him silently: "Uncle Zhongli, you understand now, right? You don't know how to comfort a girl when she's sad. Now you know why you can't get married, right?"

Zhong Limin: "..."

He said speechlessly: "I am thirsty..."

He smiled halfway through his speech, walked over and said, "I came here just to have some tea! Girl, you are not stupid, you are the smartest. You know everything about astronomy and geography, and you even know about plants and trees. You are such a genius, don't underestimate yourself..."

He spoke casually as if he was reciting a lesson, while still looking at what he had written.

A ruthless little fat hand reached out, snatched away what he had written, and walked out holding it.

"Hmm?" Zhong Limin asked curiously, "Not writing anymore?"

Yu Ru looked at him with disdain: "What a waste of such a considerate face!"

Zhong Limin: “……???”

No, what did I do? Didn't I just drink some water? Xinbao went home silently.

Tuanzi is unhappy and needs a hug from his parents or brother or Xianxian to feel better, but now they are all not at home...

Tuanzi turned around and asked, "When will Brother Xiaoxian be back?"

Yu Ru said, "Scholars take the longest time to do things. It will probably be the afternoon at the latest. You may be back after you take a nap."

Tuanzi could only nod silently.

When Yan Shenjue went out in the morning, Tuanzi was still asleep.

When Yan Shenjue arrived at the county government office, Liang Ruoxu came over and asked him, "Besides Master's conferment of the title of Prime Minister, did you get any other news?"

There is no wrong version in the 1619 book forum!

Yan Shenjue asked: "Anything else?"

Liang Ruoxu had been in the court for several years, so of course he had information channels, but the news from his side was a little slower. Usually it was delivered by people, and only in emergencies pigeons were used. It was not as fast as the communication between the shadow guards.

He directly took out the message he had received from his sleeve pocket and gave it to him. Liang Ruoxu unfolded it and felt a little strange: "This shouldn't be the case... Second Prince,"

He lowered his voice, "It has come to this. If there is a trump card, there is no way he would not use it!! Unless it is not a trump card but a death warrant. But that's not right. Even if it is a death warrant, in this hopeless situation, he is likely to say it, just to muddy the waters... Have we been thinking wrong all along?"

Yan Shenjue suddenly realized: "You mean, my uncle's background?"

"That's right!" Liang Ruoxu said, "Could it be that Tang Erhe and his group were not sent by the Second Prince? But if it wasn't him, who else could it be? These are shadow guards, which can only be possessed by the children of the royal family... How can an ordinary person move a shadow guard? Am I wrong?"

Yan Shenjue said: "Couldn't it be another royal family member?"

Liang Ruoxu paused slightly.

He stood with his hands behind his back, pondering for a long while before saying, "Do you remember what Fan Zeng said about Liu Bang: 'Now that we have entered the pass, we have taken no property, and have no pleasure with any women. This is a great ambition.'"

Yan Shenjue raised his eyebrows.

He didn't say anything else, just frowned and pondered.

In the "Hongmen Banquet" in the Records of the Grand Historian, Fan Zeng said to Xiang Yu: "When Pei Gong lived in Shandong, he was greedy for wealth and loved beautiful women. Now that he has entered the Pass, he has taken no money or property, and has not had sex with any women. This shows that his ambition is not small."① This makes a lot of sense.

Liu Bang used to be greedy for money and goods and loved beautiful women. But after entering the pass, his attitude changed drastically. He did not plunder money and goods, nor was he obsessed with women. This is enough to show that his ambitions were not small.

The third prince's biological mother was the Imperial Noble Consort, who had always been favored by the Emperor. His grandfather was the Duke of Qing, who was quite powerful and a great scholar, with a reputation for talent that would be passed down through the ages...

When the Third Prince was a child, he loved cricket fighting. For this reason, he did quite a few ridiculous things, such as exchanging his personal maid for crickets on the street.

But as he grew older, after he turned twelve or thirteen, he suddenly became well-behaved, and even earned the reputation of being a "bookworm". There was once an anecdote about him bumping into a pillar because he was so engrossed in reading. Although his ministers thought it was mostly a show, from his father's perspective, he was certainly a studious and motivated child.

Moreover, the older he got, the better his reputation became. His poems were often published, all of which were excellent. He was also humble and polite to others, especially to scholars. It was said that he often kept his name secret and went to the people to seek advice from great scholars...

So, is it that the teachers in the palace are not good enough for you to consult? Or are the court officials and Hanlin scholars not really talented? Anyway, it's hard to say.

(End of this chapter)