Chapter 619 (1/2)

When the Xue family's affairs came to an end, it ushered in the most important spring ploughing season of the year.

Last year, according to the arrangement of King Jin's house, the farmers who reclaimed the barren mountain farmland were busy.

In order not to delay this year's harvest, Xiao Ruixuan decided to purchase seeds, farm tools and other things from the Jin palace, and distribute them to the farmers who newly reclaimed farmland for free.

And as the battle in the first line of Qiao an is with busy feet, three home but not into.

Xia Yi is bored at home alone, so she goes back to Yinzhou city to visit Jiang Wan.

Jiang Wan originally thought that it would be better to be busy with spring ploughing, but he never thought that in May and June, the crops in the field were heading, and Qiao an and them still could not rest.

”I didn't expect farming to be so frustrating.” Jiang Wan couldn't help sighing.

”As soon as I hear that, I know you don't do farming.” After hearing this, Xiao Ruixuan made fun of her and said, ”how can it be overnight to grow crops? Irrigation, fertilization, weeding, catching insects which can be handled at will? That is to say, only after working hard for these three seasons can we really get a bumper harvest and let the farmers rest in peace. ”

It was after listening to Xiao Ruixuan's words that Jiang Wan realized that she really knew nothing about farming, so she would often go out to see the growing crops outside the city.

Looking at the green connected with the sky, she thought it was the most beautiful scenery between heaven and earth.

However, when everyone was looking forward to the harvest this year, there was a plague of locusts in the suburbs of Beijing.

Large areas of farmland that locusts fly over have been gnawed away.

Xiao Ruixuan, who got the news, ordered people to send a message to alert everyone to the locust plague. Cheng Zixiu, however, was also studying whether there was any way to kill insects without harming crops.

Fortunately, the grasshoppers in the suburbs of Beijing did not fly to the northwest, but the imperial court used this as an excuse to increase their taxes in the northwest by nearly 50%.

When Xiao Ruixuan received the news, he almost fell a white jade tea cup.

”Are they really afraid that we'll have a good life?” Xiao Ruixuan said angrily in his study, ”it's not easy to collect more than three or five dues, which gives the people some hope. If they increase the tax, the people will have to smash the pot and sell iron.”

”If the country does not love the people, how can the people love their country?” Mr. Qi on one side can only sigh.

But Mr. Jin was more worried than the two of them: ”but the imperial court must have made an order. Are we following or not?”

As soon as his voice fell, everyone in the room looked at Xiao Ruixuan.

Xiao Ruixuan hesitated for a long time, and then spewed out two words firmly: ”no

Then they heard someone in the room take a breath. Then someone reminded Xiao Ruixuan, ”if you don't hand it in, is it a blatant protest?”

”Of course it counts!” Mr. Jin replied, ”and there is something else to be done

We can welcome the imperial court's attack on us. ”

Everyone in the room looked dignified.