After setting up the altar, Zhao Jun led the officials of the Yunzhou County Sheriff's Office and the people present to worship the God of Spring Plowing.
Today's show is just the beginning.
Zhao Jun happily carried the golden hoe and pulled the prince, who was covering his face all the way, to the field. At first, Zhao Jun wanted the prince to be the first hoe, but he was rejected.
"After all, this is your fiefdom, Lao Liu. This spring plowing should be done by the Lord of Yunzhou County. This palace is not suitable! It is not suitable!"
After being rejected repeatedly, Zhao Jun had no choice but to give up, pick up the golden hoe and start working. In his previous life, he was born in a rural area and he knew how to do farm work, but he hasn't done it for more than 20 years. He has always been pampered, and now he is still a little unfamiliar with it. .
But after getting familiar with it for a while, he started doing it in a decent manner, and the prince on the side was dumbfounded.
This is the first time for both of you to do it, so why are you becoming more and more skilled as you do it? You are more than ten steps ahead of me in the two rows of fields side by side. Doesn't this highlight my lack of diligence?
It can be said that Zhao Ming was unlucky. Although the Song Dynasty also had the emperor and prince personally going to the fields to persuade farmers, it was just a show. The emperor usually waved a hoe, and then the prince waved a hoe, and then all the officials took turns to go to battle. Wow, who is as honest as Zhao Jun here, insisting that you finish at least one field!
Seeing his sixth brother working faster and faster and getting farther and farther away from him, Zhao Ming gritted his teeth and started working hard.
Now that the boss is gone, how can those officials stand aside and watch?
He quickly rolled up his sleeves and went to the fields, picked up a hoe and started working.
There is just one field and ridge for each person. If there is not enough, everyone has a share in the neighboring fields. Before coming, the palace issued a notice to the officials. Every official must finish plowing his own field. If the fields are not finished, you will have to work less. , your salary this year will be reduced by a certain amount, it’s up to you!
How many acres of land are cultivated by the people in a year, but you can't even manage a single ridge of land. You're just a shitty official. That's what Zhao Jun thought, and he asked his subordinates to do it.
This kind of scene occurs not only in Yunzhou County, but also in the six counties of Shendu. This matter is even included in the performance evaluation of officials in Yunzhou County. The proportion is not large, but it is not small.
You have to do that if you want to get promoted!
After all, he had not done it for more than 20 years. After just over an hour, Zhao Jun felt tired and had back pain. This had nothing to do with whether he was strong in force or not. Plowing the land was a very repetitive job, and his back was bent all the time. After a long time of standing up and then bending down, it will end up like this.
If I had been in the countryside in my previous life, I would have been told by the old people that I couldn't do the work.
But when he looked up at other people, most of them were not as good as himself, and Zhao Jun felt much more balanced.
The comments of the people watching around him also reached his ears.
"Look! The prince did a good job. He did it so fast!"
"Tch, I can be twice as fast as him!"
"Go, go, can you compete with the prince?
You are just digging in the ground, so you can work quickly. What is the status of this prince?
It's pretty good to be able to work so quickly. If you don't look at how much those officials have done, it's been more than an hour and they haven't even plowed ten steps of the field. Bah! Weak chicken! "
"Yes, yes! Weak chicken! Bah!"
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There is no precedent for Yunzhou County to be punished for speech, so the people speak quite freely. At this moment, a group of people are gathered here, and in this era, communication relies on shouting. Even if the people deliberately lower their voices, their voices will be heard. Not small.
The officials in the field naturally heard it clearly. They looked down and saw that they had only plowed so much land in an hour, and then they saw that the prince had already plowed half of it.
Look at the Crown Prince next to him. Although he is worse than the prince, he is only about ten steps behind. However, he and others are still spinning around in the first ten steps. It is simply embarrassing!
As a county guard, Jiang Ming was naturally among the officials. He was originally from a farmer's background, and he was one of the few officials who could keep pace with the prince. It wasn't that he couldn't do it faster, but that he couldn't do it quickly.
Looking back at the embarrassing appearance of the officials under his command, he not only covered his forehead.
They are just a bunch of useless snacks. It seems that they are too relaxed on weekdays, so that they can't even do this job well. Now they are embarrassed in front of the prince and the people. The prince will definitely scold himself when he goes back. What a disaster, what a disaster!
The sun is not very bright in April and May, but after a morning, I am still tired and sweating profusely.
Zhao Jun swung the hoe for the last time and plowed the last bit. Ye Yin followed and put out the wheat seeds in his hands. Zhao Jun covered it with soil and arranged it. His field ridge was considered complete.
As for fertilizer, there is no need to worry about it. Farmyard manure has been applied to these fields a few days before they were opened. The farmyard manure that has evaporated for a few days has also been mixed into the soil.
When the couple finished everything and looked up, everyone else was still fussing. The one in second place was undoubtedly the prince. Seeing this, the couple and their family members looked at each other with helpless smiles.
Humanity can't help it.
But fortunately, the progress on the prince's side is not slow. The reason is that Li Wen beside the prince is also from a farmer's family. Although he cannot personally help the prince, under his guidance, the prince has been hanging more than ten steps behind Zhao Jun. The distance is so long that it can be done in less than half an hour at most.
Jiang He and other officials from farm families should also follow suit.
As for those that were only half plowed all morning, Zhao Jun couldn't even take a second look at them.
After waiting for another half an hour, the prince finally completed the work of cultivating his own field under the smiling eyes of Zhao Jun and his wife.
When he looked up and saw the two couples looking at him with smiles, he suddenly became angry.
However, Zhao Jun smiled and stepped forward to stop his shoulder and said with a smile: "Brother Prince is not bad, look at it! My little brother, none of the officials here can compare with you, not bad, not bad!"
The prince looked back at the relieved expressions on the faces of the officials who had finished almost immediately after him. The corners of his mouth immediately twitched. If others didn't know the real situation, how could he still be unclear?
He said angrily: "Come on, no matter where you go, there will always be people who are friendly and sophisticated. I originally thought that your place would be an exception, but I didn't expect it to be the same."
Zhao Jun shrugged helplessly: "This is the case wherever there are people."
At this time, Ye Yin brought water. After gulping down the boiled water to quench his thirst, Zhao Ming suddenly felt like he was alive. He thanked Ye Yin and continued to drink.
Next to Li Wende, a maid handed him tea, and the master and servant began to drink heavily.
When the tea in the bowl was finished, the two of them breathed a long sigh of relief. It was noon, and Zhao Jun asked Ye Yin to take out the white flour meat dumplings from the basket, which immediately aroused the attention of the onlookers. A burst of excited shouts!
"It's really white meat! It really is!"
"Look! Look! The prince is going to eat! Ah! He took a bite! He took a bite! The princess started to eat too! The princess's one bite was not as big as the prince's! The prince took three bites as much as the princess!!!"
The sharp-eyed people could clearly see how much they ate in one bite, so even if they could see clearly, he actually shouted out, and it was so loud!
Listening to the excited shouts of the people around him, Zhao Jun, who had just taken a bite of meat, suddenly regretted his life.
Zhao Ming, who was on the side, saw his strange expression and immediately understood why he was like this, and couldn't help laughing.
Good guy, there are times when you can’t stand it!
Deserve it! You deserve it! ! !
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(End of chapter)
