In just a few months, Yuxianlou completely changed his appearance. He imitated the appearance of a big restaurant in Tokyo. There were colorful buildings outside the door, and officials and private prostitutes were lined up on both sides of the door, attracting passers-by in a colorful way.

Chen Laoshi and Qiao Datou sat far away against the wall, watching the night slowly darken the world, and enjoying their own peaceful time.

Qiao Datou's eyes couldn't help but float to the female prostitutes. He had secretly inquired several times and confirmed that the Qiannu whom he liked could sleep with him once with only a consistent amount of money. He had saved up all the money in these months, and he was about to save enough. After living for more than thirty years, he could finally truly taste the taste of a woman and make up for this gap in his life.

Of course, Qiao Datou didn't know that Qiannu just wanted to cheat him out of his stupidity. If he didn't know a guest, he would happily sleep with others for two or three hundred. Qiannu was over twenty-five years old. This business cannot be done for a long time, so he valued a penny. He planned for himself early and was convenient to kill acquaintances.

Qiao Datou didn't know, and he didn't care if he knew. People like him lived in a daze and would be fine as long as they were full today. Who cares whether the sun rose tomorrow?

"The official is here again-"

Chen Laoshi, who was squinting, suddenly said nothing without hesitation. Qiao Datou understood what he meant and looked up at the road. He was just seeing Xu Ping, Zhang Cun and Cao Keming walking with the company of several soldiers.

Qiao Datou muttered: "The soil and soil in Lingnan are not good. The officials have been here for less than a year and are still tanned. If we can return to the Central Plains alive, I wonder if the people there will regard us as barbarians."

Chen Chen narrowed his eyes, as if he had recalled the past, and the two fell silent.

When Cao Keming arrived before Yuxianlou, he began to complain: "A such a great restaurant, which earns more than 100 chunks of cash a month, how could the judge put it in the military capital treasury? The tax amount paid to Yongzhou every year is so much. Isn't this money still moldy in the military capital treasury? The money in the minister's warehouse is not enough!"

Xu Ping smiled and didn't say anything. Who is blamed for this? Isn't Cao Keming's own brain? If Xu Ping had just come here, Xu Ping could not do such a thing. In recent months, Xu Ping made a lot of money, and the price of the water rose. Cao Keming's hands were also abundant, and his attitude towards Xu Ping was gradually changed. However, some things have been done, and it is too late to regret it. It is taboo to transfer assets under the name of the military capital treasury to the minister treasury. He could not get rid of the suspicion of digging out the corner of the national treasury, and Cao Keming could only complain.

Yongzhou's annual commercial tax amount is over 1,000 yuan. Now the income from Yuxianlou covers all the tax. Xu Ping exempted a lot of taxes. Cao Keming took the opportunity to add some of the names and hugged a part of the diplomat, and barely balanced his mind.

When he arrived at the door, Xu Ping looked around and with the faint light of the lantern, he saw Chen Laoshi and Qiao Datou sitting at the foot of the wall. He smiled and nodded to them.

The most painful thing in life is not to eat without wrapping your belly or clothes without covering your body, but ultimately fatigue. The most painful thing is that this person is clearly alive, but his heart is dead. The prosperity and depression of this world have nothing to do with him. He is like a walking corpse all day long, watching the rising sun and the setting sun, there is no ripples in his heart.

As an official in Yongzhou, Xu Ping knew that he could bring wealth to this place and make everyone live better than before. Although they might not be able to reap more happiness, they could get the comfort they had never had before. But Chen Hushi's heart was dead. This veteran fought against the Khitan and conquered Jiaozhi, but he wiped out his ambitions and spent all his life in the humid and hot weather in Yongzhou City.

Nothing like this can bring changes to him, and it is a pity after all.

Perhaps, one day he led his troops to destroy Jiaozhi? Only when he returned to the Central Plains with the glory of victory and accepted the cheers of all people in his hometown, his heart would come alive.

Xu Ping smiled and shook his head. This was a crazy idea. In this world that did not belong to him, he didn't want to put in such a lot of effort.

Watching Xu Ping and the other two enter the restaurant, Qiao Datou poked Chen Laoshi next to him and whispered: "Dad Chen, that official is smiling at us."

Chen Laoshi muttered in a low voice. Qiao Datou didn't hear what he was saying clearly. He didn't care about Chen Laoshi's answer. The two of them were still quietly watching the pedestrians coming and going on the road.

When he arrived at the pavilion on the second floor, Cao Keming said to Manager Cai who was following him: "First two bottles of good wine, then a chopped pepper fish head, add more pickled peppers, be sure to be spicy! I fell in love with this bite recently, and I feel uncomfortable if I don't eat spicy food for a day. I also have two pounds of good beef, so that Yunzong can taste the taste of our Yongzhou!"

Manager Cai said it was. There were many people raising cattle in Yongzhou, and it was not popular to cultivate the land. The barbarians killed them to sacrifice to ghosts. There was no way to ban beef, and the beef was sold publicly in the restaurant.

After Cao Zhizhou finished ordering, Director Cai asked Zhang Cun again: "What do you want to eat when Yun Jue is going to eat?"

"You heard that there is a spicy and sour fish fillet here. Everyone who has eaten it praises me. Just want this."

Although Zhang Cun is a superior competent department, his level is slightly lower than Cao Keming. It’s not that Cao Keming doesn’t give him face. After Zhang Cun ordered it, it was Xu Ping’s turn. Xu Ping ordered a boiled beef slice. Since he came to the Song Dynasty, he has not been able to eat beef openly. When he has the chance, Xu Ping naturally needs to make up for it.

These dishes were created by Xu Ping in Yongzhou, of course they were copied from his previous life. Somehow they spread and became the signature dishes of Yuxianlou, which surprised Xu Ping. In the past, when he was in the Central Plains, he also made many dishes from his previous life, but even Xiuxiu couldn't even look at them. Unexpectedly, they became popular in Yongzhou. Even after Xu Ping left office from Yongzhou, these dishes were called Xu Gongcai and became a major dish.

To put it bluntly, Lingnan was not developed enough at this time, and anything from later generations was a rare thing here, which was not as good as the Central Plains had experienced thousands of years of storms and people had seen everything.

After the wine and food came up, the three of them started talking about the important things.

Cao Keming said to Xu Ping: "Prime Minister Tong, you bullied Huang Chengxiang's son in Zhongzhou a few days ago. He was always holding his breath in his heart. He wanted to go to trouble you, but I would not dare to move. If you really produce so much sugar you said in a few days, but there are mountains of gold and silver. The barbarians are jealous of money, so you must be careful."

"What's the matter? Huang Conggui and I met in the inspection camp, and I even invited him to a banquet. Why did I bully him? The magistrate of Zhongzhou is too unaware of the matter!"

Seeing Xu Ping's innocent look, Cao Keming said, "It's okay for you to judge. Huang Conggui has been naughty since he was a child. The surrounding prefectures and counties are famous. How could he suffer in vain? As soon as he returns, he will take people to Ruhe County. Huang Chengxiang specially sent people to Yongzhou to find me. I tried to persuade him to suppress the matter. I told you, don't think that the barbarians are like the people in the Central Plains. They can bully them by reasoning. They are unreasonable when they make a fuss. They will fight and kill them if they say anything. Unless they have the strength to suppress them, they will not dare to rebel."

Xu Ping didn't care: "Ruhe County is not a piece of paper. One Zhongzhou dares to shout and kill. If I really come out to make trouble, I will level it up and empty the ground to plant sugarcane!"

When Zhang Cun heard the seriousness of the matter, he asked, "What's going on? Ruhe County now spends hundreds of thousands of stagnants of money and grain a year, and cannot withstand any storm."

Cao Keming told the story of Xu Ping's inspection in Cao City that day and using lynching Huang Conggui. Huang Conggui was not Li Wei. He suffered a loss and swallowed it into his stomach. As soon as he returned, he would order all his troops to quell the inspection camp. Huang Chengxiang was afraid of Cao Keming and sent people to the state to question the crime. Cao Keming also knew what happened.

If it were in the past, Zhang Cun would definitely not have made Xu Ping feel better, but now hundreds of thousands of guan in front of him, and the huge political achievements were suddenly hit on him. No matter what Xu Ping did, it would be a big deal in Zhang Cun's eyes. Not to mention the son of a barbarian chief, hundreds of thousands of guan a year were enough to send troops to calm the surrounding prefectures and counties. Emperor Zhenzong pretended to be a god and was in trouble with the treasury. What was more important than money in such an era?

Sighing, Zhang Cun said, "Prime Minister Xu Tong, you are young and energetic. Isn't it that I'm talking about you, what are you concerned about with a barbarian? Zhongzhou is on the edge of Ruhe County, with direct roads and no mountains and rivers blocking it. It's a lot of trouble for trouble and disturbs the military and civilians. The so-called harmony makes money. In the future, you will give in and let them make trouble in the mountains."

Xu Ping shook his head and said, "How could the Yunjue think I was a battle of intent? That market cannot be withdrawn, so I had to come up with this bad strategy. If he doesn't scare him, he will cause trouble every day and the business will not be completed."

"It's just a grass market, what's the point?"

Xu Ping smiled: "Yun Judgment should not look down on that grass market. If the money for growing sugarcane in He County comes from there. Cao Zhizhou and Zhang Yun Judgment, I ask you, Yongzhou manages hundreds of thousands of barbarians, and these people also have to eat and drink. There are many horse gangs who do business, but the annual commercial tax in the state is only more than 1,000 yuan. Could it be that the only business that the horse gang and hundreds of thousands of barbarians do is to do this?"

Cao Keming said: "The judge has been thinking too much. There are many inspections in and outside the city of this province, and people are stationed everywhere. They are not allowed to evade taxes. How much business can the barbarians eat raw meat and drink blood?"

"Cao Zhizhou still doesn't know how the horse gang's business is done, so he thinks like this. Let's put it this way, they transport things in. When they pass Yongzhou, they only pay a little tax, and the amount of exemption is too much, so they seem to have less money. When they arrive at the barbarians' place, the horse gangs will trade them for gold and silver before they come out of the mountain. Where do you go to collect taxes? There is a grass market in which government trades with the horse gang and the barbarians. It doesn't matter if the tax is not collected. Anyway, the money has been put into the warehouse."

"There is a reason why Xu Tongzong said it, so it's better to keep Caoshi. I won't talk about the past. Now Zhongzhou and Tongzong have a grudge. How to prevent them from causing trouble is important."

Zhang Cun was not interested in those small profits, so what if he had more than a few thousand chunks of money? It was nothing more than the local finances in Yongzhou, and Cao Keming and Xu Ping lived a comfortable life. For him, the huge wealth obtained by sugar was the most important, which was directly related to his future.

Xu Ping didn't care. He set up his base in Ruhe County and would definitely not be able to withstand the existence of Zhongzhou when he developed it. How could he not prepare early? Since the time of concentrating the population and opening the land, Xu Ping trained the village soldiers according to his own pastoral methods in Zhongmu. If he really wanted to form a team, he could organize more than a thousand people. The hundreds of servants and soldiers of the Huang family in Zhongzhou were just mobs, and he really thought they were a big army.

Seeing that Xu Ping did not take this matter seriously at all, Zhang Cun became more and more anxious. He was a civil servant, but he didn't think that with thousands of households, he could not be afraid of the barbarians causing trouble. He murmured: "What should I do!"

Cao Keming took a big sip of wine and said to Zhang Cun: "There is no need to worry about the Lucky Judgment. Otherwise, I will go to Ruhe County to take charge in the past few months, and Xu Tong will return to the city of the state first. Even if Huang Chengxiang has the courage, he will not dare to mess with me!"

After saying that, he looked at Xu Ping with a smile.

Although the relationship between the two eased, the previous conflict could not disappear in an instant. Cao Keming was always a little dissatisfied. He wanted Xu Ping to understand that I was not as good as you in making money, but you were far inferior to me in comforting the place.

Xu Ping looked at Cao Keming and said lightly: "No need. Cao Zhizhou doesn't know how to squeeze sugar, and the things there are inseparable from me. As for the Huang family in Zhongzhou, you don't have to worry. If you don't have talent, you won't be scared by a small Tuzhou. Even if he comes, he will still say the same thing, Ruhe County is not a piece of paper after all!"
Chapter completed!