Top Assassin Retires and Becomes a Farmer After Time Traveling to the Past Chapter 188: School Hall

"First is the output from the fields," Li Yao said. "I have new thods for planting wheat, rapeseed, rice that can greatly increase yields. At ho there are also two to three thousand acres of sweet potatoes, which can yield at least 500,000 to 600,000 catties. Next spring, if all these sweet potato seedlings are planted, it can also yield over 100,000 acres, how much can be harvested next fall?

"With grain, poultry and livestock can be raised, or wine can be brewed, all of these can be sold for money."

"Tea trees can also be encouraged to grow, or mulberry trees planted to raise silkworms, won can be encouraged to spin yarn, weave cloth, embroider flowers. Yi Prefecture’s silk embroidery is very famous throughout Daling."

"In short, there are many ways to make money," Li Yao finally said, "The only thing needed is that what is produced can be sold in a tily manner. So now, do you think repairing the roads is the most urgent big thing?"

Liu Yun's eyes grew brighter as he listened.

Previously, he had also heard many teachers, and even the current Pri Minister, talk about governing the country.

But he felt that those were all too abstract.

It was like an empty castle in the sky. After a long speech that sounded reasonable, when you thought about it carefully, it seed nothing was actually said.

But what Aunt Li said today were practical thods. Compared to those lofty talks, it was many tis more useful!

"It's just..." Liu Yun thought for a mont, and finally said, "If it's like this, wouldn't all the common people want to beco businessn and earn more money?"

"What's wrong with that?"

"I don't know if it's good or bad," Liu Yun said, "But since ancient tis, agriculture has been valued over comrce. If everyone wants to go into business, who will farm the land? If no one is willing to farm, where will grain, poultry and livestock co from?"

Being able to think of this point demonstrated that Liu Yun was not ignorant. At least he understood the general principles.

"So I'll give you another piece of advice: Put rchants in a cage."

Liu Yun: ???

"It is true there is no comrce without deceit. But for Daling to beco rich and powerful, rchants also play an irreplaceable role. So what you need to do is closely supervise the rchants. Making money is fine, but one person absolutely cannot make money while others cannot make money. There definitely cannot be collusion between officials and rchants that would shake Daling's foundations. Of course, there is a lot of reasoning and thods behind this that cannot be fully explained in a short while. When you encounter it in the future, you can co ask ."

"Auntie, hearing you speak for a while is better than reading books for ten years!" Liu Yun said, "With your great talent, you are qualified to be the Minister of Agriculture of our dynasty! No no no, you are qualified to be Pri Minister!"

"Let's forget about that. I'm just a retiree, passing ti in the village raising chickens and ducks, fishing, quite comfortable."

As Li Yao spoke, she tugged the fishing rod, and another small carp was pulled out of the water.

"But my skills are not that great, I can't catch big fish, so you probably won't get to enjoy any today."

"No problem, I'll have Bai Song go catch locusts later," Liu Yun laughed and said, "Daring to nibble on my people's crops, I will also eat their at!"

...

That night, Liu Yun got his wish and ate fried locusts.

"I didn't expect these little bugs to be so delicious."

"Does the Prince of Yi Prefecture like them too?" Wang Er asked.

"Don't call that when it's just us," Liu Yun said.

"Then what should I call you?"

Liu Yun thought about it. Previously everyone called him Ninth Prince, even the old village won called him that.

But now he was a prince, Ninth Prince didn't seem appropriate. Having everyone address him directly by na, they probably wouldn't dare.

"How about we address each other as brothers?" Liu Yun suddenly had this idea and said, "You call Brother Liu, I'll call you Brother Wang."

"Cough cough," Li Yao frowned when she heard this. "Let's not be too casual."

"Auntie, it's fine," Liu Yun said. "If not for the hindrance of my prince status, I'd want to recognize you as godmother. What's the big deal about and Brother Wang addressing each other as brothers?"

In this era, recognizing a godmother was not as casual as in Li Yao's previous life.

Once recognized, it was truly motherhood.

"Then do as you wish."

Seeing Li Yao agree, Liu Yun was overjoyed in his heart.

Although he was young, he also deeply understood one thing.

If it was just a business partnership with Aunt Li, it was not enough to firmly tie the two of them together. So there must be sothing more.

Like recognizing a godmother, or marriage alliance.

Recognizing a godmother was not good. Even if the Emperor nodded in agreent, all the civil and military officials of the court would have to collectively kneel in the hall to object.

After all it was too undignified.

But a marriage alliance...he felt it was worth trying.

"Brother Wang," Liu Yun asked, "When are you setting off for Yizhou Prefecture?"

Wang Er looked to Li Yao. He couldn't decide this himself.

Li Yao calculated that there were still ten days until the county exam, but since none of them had been to Yizhou Prefecture before, she wanted to take everyone to visit early, to broaden their horizons.

"Let's prepare tomorrow and set off the day after."

"That's great," Liu Yun said, "I'll go back tomorrow and wait for you all in Yizhou Prefecture. I'll play host then!"

"Then thanks in advance Brother Liu."

"Don't stand on ceremony," Liu Yun said. "It's a pity that after becoming a prince, if Father Emperor does not summon , I cannot return to the capital. Otherwise after your exam, I really want to take you all to the capital for fun."

The capital?

Wang Er had heard of the capital countless tis since he was little.

It was said the capital was where the Emperor lived, the most prosperous place under heaven. The imperial palace was inlaid everywhere with gold, even the streets and alleys were paved with marble...

Sooner or later, he would go to the capital.

...

The next day, the whole family was busy.

Li Yao ant for everyone to go, including little Yanran who just turned one month old, and He Xiaoya who had just finished confinent.

Da Zhuang worried about the land at ho, and all those chickens, ducks, geese, pigs, cows, sheep, so he didn't want to go.

"Da Zhuang, just go," Wang Xueshi said. "Don't worry about things at ho. Mother will have your dad help watch over things well. Guaranteed not a single chicken will be missing, not a single sweet potato will be missing."

"Then thanks for your trouble, Mother."

"It's no trouble for ," Wang Xueshi laughed. "It's trouble for your dad."

Wang Jia Gui: ...

When the family was poor, the Wang family n didn't seem to have much status.

Now the family was well-off, living good days, the Wang family n seed to have even less status.

"When we return from Yizhou Prefecture, we'll buy lots of tasty things for Dad and Mother!" Little Wang Xiao Si considered and said. "And a big flower hat for Mother!"

"Hehe...I'm an old woman already, what do I need a flower hat for?"

In any case, with Mother's care, Da Zhuang felt reassured and decided to leave his wife and daughter Little Yanran to go to Yizhou Prefecture together.

"Xiaoya, do you want to stop by and see your parents on the way?"

ntion of her maternal ho dampened He Xiaoya's mood.

When they held Little Yanran's one month celebration, not only did no one from her maternal side co, they didn't even send word through soone else.

"I won't go."

"Alright, as you say."

The whole family was packing up, big bags and small bags.

But the busiest was still Du Xiao Hui.

She would also be going along to Yizhou Prefecture this ti, firstly to accompany Wang Er, and secondly because she had more important matters to handle.

After this period of ti, she fully understood how the school operated, so this ti she decided to try starting a small school in Yizhou Prefecture.