In the evening, Zhao Yao came back from dinner at the eighth prince's house and saw Dou Le waiting at the door of his courtyard, so he hurriedly walked over.
As soon as Dou Le saw Zhao Yao, he hurriedly walked forward and saluted Zhao Yao first: "I have met His Highness the Tenth Prince." After saying that, he took out a letter from his arms and handed it to Zhao Yao. "Your Highness, this is the letter from the prince."
Zhao Yao took the letter with joy on his face and said, "I guess it's time for you to send me a letter."
Tongxi on the side said jokingly: "Dou Le, if you don't send His Highness the King of Chu's letter today, His Highness will be in a hurry in the next few days."
Dou Le said with a smile on his face: "I know that His Highness has been waiting for the prince's letter, and I was afraid that His Highness would be impatient, so I sent it as soon as I received the letter."
"Thank you for your hard work." Zhao Yao put the letter in his arms and said to Dou Le with a smile, "Come into the house with me and let Tongxi treat you to tea and some snacks."
"Thank you, Your Highness." Dou Le followed Tong Xi into the house.
Zhao Yao wanted to write a reply to King Chu, so Dou Le had to stay for the time being and wait for His Highness the Tenth Prince to write a reply.
Back in the study, Zhao Yao couldn't wait to open the letter from His Royal Highness King Chu, which contained twelve pieces of paper.
The King of Chu was not a talkative person on weekdays, and he did not talk much to anyone, not even Concubine Li. The only person who could make King Chu talk more was Zhao Yao.
Before, the King of Chu only wrote two or three letters to Zhao Yao, briefly describing what he had done in the past half month. Zhao Yao said that he wrote perfunctory letters.
Zhao Yao asked King Chu to write to him in the future, at least ten pieces of paper. From then on, every time the King of Chu wrote to Zhao Yao, he had more than a dozen pieces of paper.
The King of Chu writes a letter to Zhao Yao every half month, and he has never stopped writing in the past few years.
When I opened the letter, I asked him if he had studied well in the past half month.
While Zhao Yao was watching, he complained in his heart: Fourth brother, can't you change the beginning?
The King of Chu told Zhao Yao about the situation in Liangzhou and about his son in the letter.
Before the King of Chu took over Liangzhou, there was some chaos in Liangzhou, mainly because of the unsettled people. After all, it had been occupied by rebels before.
The rebels did not care about the life and death of the people, they only knew how to exploit them, making the people of Liangzhou miserable. Later, after the rebels were removed and the imperial court sent people to manage Liangzhou, the people's lives became easier.
After the King of Chu took over Liangzhou, he managed Liangzhou in an orderly manner so that the people could live a stable life. Before he left, Zhao Yao gave him an improved plow. Zhao Yao called it "Quyuanli".
The curved shaft plow is easier to use and more labor-saving than the previous plows.
Since the invention of the Quyuan plow, it has become easier for the people to plow the land.
Only when the arable land is cultivated well can food be grown well. If the grain is planted well, the harvest will be good.
Because of the emergence of the Quyuan plow, the harvests in many places in the Zhou Dynasty have increased a lot in recent years, especially in the Jiangnan region.
In the past few years, the grain harvest in the Jiangnan area has increased by three or four levels compared with previous years. Liangzhou's grain harvest has also increased a lot.
Because of Qu Yuuli, Zhao Yao, the tenth prince, gained a lot of favor among the people. His reputation among the people is very high now, not losing to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and His Highness the King.
In addition to giving the great gift of Quyuanli to the King of Chu, Zhao Yao also told the King of Chu in his letter that he could collect more sheep manure to use as fertilizer to irrigate the fields.
Many people in Liangzhou raise sheep, and the most indispensable thing is sheep dung. With sheep manure as fertilizer, many fields in Liangzhou have become much more fertile.
Speaking of sheep dung, Zhao Yao once asked Liang Run to send people to buy sheep dung in the Western Regions.
There are more sheep in the Western Regions than in the Great Zhou Dynasty. Furthermore, there are not many people in the Western Regions farming.
When people in the Western Regions learned that the Zhou people wanted to buy sheep dung, they all thought the Zhou people were strange and secretly laughed at them. Since the Zhou people are stupid and have a lot of money and are willing to buy their sheep dung, of course they are willing to sell it. Although it is sold very cheaply, it can be sold for a penny.
In fact, Zhao Yao originally wanted to make chemical fertilizers, but after thinking about it, he decided to wait until he went to Lingnan in the future.
The people of Dazhou did not expect that sheep dung was so useful, which made people in various places in Dazhou start a trend of raising sheep.
When the King of Chu was in the palace, he often read agricultural books and even went to ask experienced farmers in person. To this end, he also wrote a book on agriculture. He is very experienced in farming.
After he arrived in Liangzhou, he was very concerned about the food in Liangzhou and often went to the fields to check the situation of rice or wheat in person.
During spring plowing every year, he would personally go to the fields to plow the land and plant rice. When the autumn harvest came, he would personally go to the fields to cut rice and wheat.
The people of Liangzhou were naturally very moved when they saw that His Royal Highness the King of Chu valued food so much. At the same time, we also pay more attention to farming.
In addition to paying attention to food, the King of Chu also attached great importance to studying.
Because of the rebellion in Liangzhou, many scholars were killed and many academies were destroyed. Before the King of Chu took over Liangzhou, the prefect of Liangzhou did not care about studying. The prefect of Liangzhou had long known that Liangzhou would become a fiefdom of a certain prince in the future, and he would not be able to be the prefect for long, so he was too lazy to bother managing Liangzhou.
After the King of Chu came to Liangzhou, he not only funded the construction of academies, but also established a Liangzhou Imperial College. As long as a student can get into Imperial College, he doesn't have to study hard, and he can still get rewards.
In the past two years, Liangzhou's writing style has become much more prosperous than before. It is said that many students from other places went to Liangzhou to study.
The imperial examination in the capital is too difficult. Only one out of ten people can pass the exam. However, the imperial examination in Liangzhou is much easier than the imperial examination in the capital. For students all over the world, it would be great to be admitted to Liangzhou Imperial College and stay in Liangzhou as an official in the future.
Before the king of Chu came to Liangzhou, he was quite famous among the people. After he arrived in Liangzhou, he treated virtuous corporals and was eager to seek talents, which made him even more famous.
In recent years, many people have gone to Liangzhou to find a way out. The king of Chu accepted all the talented people and treated them with courtesy.
A few years after the King of Chu took over Liangzhou, Liangzhou had a completely new look, and the people seemed to have been reborn.
He also revised the law, and he also personally tried the cases accumulated in Liangzhou, clearing the grievances of many people, and was called "Master Qingtian" by the people.
Nowadays, the people in Liangzhou are grateful to King Chu and praise him everywhere as a wise king who was sent by Bodhisattva Buddha beads to save them.
He also trained his soldiers diligently. Because of this matter, he was also involved by the ministers, saying that he had bad intentions. However, the emperor did not blame him, but praised him for doing a good job.
Although King Dai drove away the rebels a few years ago, there is no guarantee that Liangzhou will always be safe.
Today's King of Chu can be regarded as a vassal king who dominates one side. Of course, he has no thoughts of domination yet. Everything he does now is what he thinks he should do.
Although the King of Chu did not return to Beijing, the achievements that the King of Chu had made in Liangzhou in the past few years made His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and His Royal Highness King Dai begin to fear him.
The King of Chu didn't care about this, but he was secretly wary of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and His Highness Dai Wang.
In the letter, the King of Chu also told Zhao Yao that his nephew Xiaobaozi had been thinking about his uncle and asked him when he could come to Liangzhou to see him.
Because the King of Chu often told his son about Zhao Yao, although the little bun had never met his uncle Zhao Yao, he always remembered him. In addition, Zhao Yao often gives fun things to Xiao Baozi.
Little Baozi likes and misses Zhao Yao very much, an uncle he has never met before.
Seeing that his nephew missed him so much, Zhao Yao was moved and had a plan. He wrote to the King of Chu and asked the King of Chu to ask the emperor to visit Liangzhou.
A few years ago, when Zhao Yao was young, the emperor did not agree with him traveling to Liangzhou. But now that he is a few years older, the emperor should agree with him going to Liangzhou now.
Zhao Yao finished writing the letter and handed it to Dou Le.
"Your Highness, I am going to Liangzhou in a while. Can I bring your letter directly to the prince?"
"You are going to Liangzhou, when?" Zhao Yao asked hurriedly, "What are you going to Liangzhou for?"
Dou Le had already guessed that Zhao Yao would have this excited expression when he heard that he was going to Liangzhou. He held back his laughter and said, "Your Majesty asked me to go to Liangzhou to see the prince and give him something by the way."
When Zhao Yao heard what Dou Le said, his first reaction was that something had happened.
"What's wrong with Fourth Brother? Did something happen?" When Fourth Brother wrote to him, he always wrote good things, never bad things. He knew that Fourth Brother didn't want him to worry. He had thought about sending someone to Liangzhou so that if anything happened to his fourth brother, he would know immediately. However, he thought about it later and decided that this was not appropriate. Besides, it would be embarrassing if Fourth Brother found out.
Seeing Zhao Yao's worried look, Dou Le quickly comforted him and said, "Your Highness, the prince is fine, and nothing happened to Liangzhou."
"Then why did you suddenly go to Liangzhou?" Zhao Yao said suspiciously, "Dou Le, you can't hide it from me."
"Your Highness, how dare I hide this from you? The prince is really fine. It's just that the queen misses the prince and misses the young highness." Dou Le said, "Since the birth of the young highness, the queen has never seen him. The queen is thinking Do you want to bring the princess and the young highness to the capital?"
"So that's it." Zhao Yao pretended to believe Dou Le's words, "But the little bun is only two or three years old. Can he travel a long distance to the capital?"
"The empress really misses your highness, so she asked me to go to Liangzhou to have a look." Dou Le said, "Let's see if the princess and your highness can come to the capital."
Zhao Yao asked again: "When will you go?"
Dou Le replied: "Five days later, I will leave for Liangzhou."
"Five days from now?" Zhao Yao was thinking in his mind. The Huns would arrive in the capital in about ten days. He wanted to go to Liangzhou with Dou Le, but he was afraid that he would not be able to do so. "Then I can't go with you. Can't you go later? You can go after the Huns have left."
"Your Highness, this servant cannot be the master of this matter." Dou Le said with a confused look on his face.
"Okay, then you go to Liangzhou to see your fourth brother first, and I will go there later." After Zhao Yao finished speaking, he suddenly thought of something and asked hurriedly, "Do you want to take something with you when you go to Liangzhou?"
"It's natural. The empress has prepared many things for me to give to the prince and princess." Dou Le said, "I am going to Liangzhou by boat."
Zhao Yao was shocked: "Concubine Li has prepared a boatload of things for the fourth brother."
"almost."
Zhao Yao exclaimed in his heart: My dear, Concubine Li is really rich.
"I've also prepared some things for Fourth Brother and Little Baozi. You can help me bring them when the time comes."
"Yes, Your Highness."
After Dou Le finished speaking, he left Xingde Palace.
Tongxi saw that Zhao Yao's face was a little unhappy and asked hurriedly: "Your Highness, what's wrong?"
"Something must have happened to the fourth brother, otherwise Concubine Li would not have sent Dou Le to Liangzhou."
"Your Highness, didn't Dou Le just say that Concubine Li misses the prince and your highness?"
"Little Baozi is only two or three years old. No matter how much Concubine Li misses her grandson, she will not let the fourth sister-in-law bring Little Baozi to the capital now." Zhao Yao said with a slightly sullen face, "How can Little Baozi withstand a long journey at such a young age? If you get sick or something happens on the way, it will kill the little bun."
"Your Highness is right." Tong Xi asked anxiously and worriedly: What happened to His Highness the King of Chu? "
"I have to go and inquire about it." Zhao Yao had a look of concentration on his face, "I hope it won't be a big deal."
If it was not a big deal, Concubine Li would not send Dou Le to Liangzhou.
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