A red sun floats in the sky, sprinkling the sky with rays of light. The green mountains in the distance are drawn on the golden edge, with a little holiness in beauty. Below the green mountains, the boundless sugarcane forest spreads to the distance, like the sea.

Xu Ping and Shi Quanbin rode their horses and walked slowly on the road in the sugarcane forest.

"This sugar cane forest was newly planted this year. It's a little late and it's just starting to harvest now."

Pointing at the busy person in the sugarcane forest, Xu Ping whispered to Shi Quanbin.

Shi Quanbin knew nothing about these things. He was also from a wealthy family. The young man entered the palace and followed the emperor. He didn't know Jiahe, but after hearing Xu Ping's words, he just nodded repeatedly.

Although he was carrying the emperor's secret order, Shi Quanbin just glanced at most places, and occasionally heard it, but he would not know in depth. It was different from Yongzhou. Before leaving, the official family also mentioned it to him personally. Did it explode overnight as some ministers said, and it became one of the few rich places in Lingnan. Xu Ping, the first-class Jinshi, still remembered the wait he personally designated, and did not let the empress dowager intervene. Moreover, when the title was performed, he still remembered what auspicious sign was that the auspicious light was.

This morning, Shi Quanbin asked Xu Ping to take him out and see what is strange about the place Xu Ping has built in the past two years. He has seen it with his own eyes and can only be vivid in front of the official family when he goes back, and pave the way for Xu Ping's beautiful words, pave the way for his future career, and also let him remember his name.

With Xu Ping's background, as long as the emperor takes power, he can still be in the position of the magistrate. At that time, he will still rely on him to support him. Who is the real powerful minister who has no ears and ears in the palace? The eunuchs cannot help with major issues, but the rumor is more informed than anyone else. Today, the official family is coughing, tomorrow the official family is in a good mood. Recently, he fell in love with a beauty and hates which minister, which is important information for the magistrate.

Of course, they can't help with real major affairs in the court. Not to mention the eunuchs and the prime ministers of the outside court don't know what the situation is in the inner court in the palace, they just vaguely know that there is this institution.

As he walked along the way, he happened to see the harvester pulled by the scalper in front of him reaching the ground. Shi Quanbin became excited and pointed and said, "I have seen this. This is really profitable in Yunxing Village. In the past two years, it has been used in many places in Kaifeng Prefecture, all sold by your family."

Xu Ping nodded awkwardly: "People have good eyesight!"

This is obviously different from the one who harvests rice and wheat. This is the one who harvests sorghum. What is this look like this guy?

Seeing something familiar to him, Shi Quanbin was intrigued and kept looking around, saying, "I said why did Yunxing suddenly become a big province as soon as he arrived in Yongzhou? It was up to your clever mind. By the way, I have planted sugarcane nearby. Is it because you made these novel agricultural tools? Let me take a look at what else, so I can tell you something strange to the official family when I go back!"

Xu Ping thought for a while before shook his head and smiled bitterly: "To be honest, there are really no novel agricultural tools, it's just the ones I made in the capital. What really made the sugarcane here grow here is the road under our feet."

"Road?" Shi Quanbin looked down, "If you don't say it, I haven't remembered it yet. Since I arrived in Lingnan, it turns out that the road in Yongzhou has been different from other states, which are much flatter. But what does the road have to do with planting sugarcane?"

"A mu of fresh sugar cane is produced in thousands of kilograms per acre. If it is carried by people on their backs, how can it be grown? Why was sugar sugar produced in Sichuan and Shu in the east of Zhejiang? It is because it is convenient to transport it there, rivers are crisscrossing, and many small boats can be transported easily. Yongzhou is rugged, and most places are not even accessible to ox carts. If the road is not repaired first, sugar cane cannot be grown."

"It makes sense. If you build roads and bridges here, you will be loved by future generations. This merit is better than planting sugarcane."

I haven't really seen it before, Shi Quanbin still finds it difficult to imagine that the road is important, just a casual compliment.

The appropriate period for sugarcane is not long. During the harvest season, a large amount of fresh cane is concentrated, and it is unimaginable that there is no decent road. In Xu Ping's previous life, there was the first road to go on a vehicle until the War of Resistance. No matter how good the climate conditions are, the sugar industry can only be developed after that. There is no competition at this time. Xu Ping can slowly squeeze sugar, otherwise the sugar-pressing season will not be so long.

After walking a few miles, I arrived at the first sugar squeezing farm. Xu Ping took Shi Quanbin in and visited.

The presses driven by cattle and horses and the continuous and closed steaming and cooking system were Xu Ping's proud designs. Unfortunately, Shi Quanbin was really unfamiliar with people's livelihood in the palace, and he didn't see any tricks. He just flattered him casually, which disappointed Xu Ping.

On this day, both of them were walking on the road to the left of the valley and were walking through the sugarcane forest. Shi Quanbin didn't understand anymore, and the boundless scale of the sea still shocked him. He originally wanted to rely on his own words to fight against the lotus and say a few words to Xu Ping, but after walking, he found that as long as he described it truthfully, it was amazing enough.

It was not until the evening that I walked out of the vast sea of ​​sugarcane and went outside a village.

Xu Ping breathed a sigh of relief and said to Shi Quanbin: "President, you are tired of this day. Let's stop in Wuzhai tonight and return tomorrow."

Shi Quanbin nodded, but did not answer, but was stunned at the convoy like a dragon outside the village.

Xu Ping was curious and looked at him, but found nothing unusual.

Shi Quanbin swallowed and asked Xu Ping: "Why are there so many cars here?"

Xu Ping was confused and didn't see anything wrong, so he had to answer honestly: "This is a car to transport candy to Yongzhou. It's the sugar season now, and it's easier to distribute it to various places when transported to Yongzhou. The head of the Pavilion did not know that the quota for the Sansi was more than 2 million kilograms. But I don't think about how many cars would take for a few million kilograms."

"There are so many horses in Yongzhou?"

"This is a Dali horse, I bought it from Dali for a lot of money. Yongzhou is stuffy and humid, so this horse can't be raised if it is used. The horse cubs under the horse farm here cannot be used, but it consumes a lot of money every year."

Shi Quanbin couldn't help but smile bitterly: "There are hundreds of horses outside this village. Yunxing, you are from the Central Plains, and the Central Plains prefectures and counties are not as big as yours."

Xu Ping thought about it, it seemed that this was true. His farm was originally a horse shepherd's prison. Whoever has a horse around him was very precious. Why did he suddenly not take it seriously in Yongzhou?

After thinking for a while, Xu Ping said to Shi Quanbin: "Actually, it's nothing strange. Does the head of the Pavilion remember that there is a saying in Liu Hedong's article 'There is no donkey'? The same is true in Yongzhou. There are no donkeys and mules, and everything is made of cattle and horse. Compared with the Central Plains, of course, it seems that there are more horses."

Shi Quanbin just shook his head, but he didn't believe this sentence. The horses here are just like the Central Plains, and they are all from foreign vendors, so they will definitely not be cheap. Many horses are not donkey-free mules, but because there is a lot of money here.

I consciously took Xu Pinggao and thought that he could make money than ordinary local officials. I really went to the bottom to understand it, but I didn't expect it to be much more exaggerated than I thought.

(There are many things at the end of the year, so I can only make up for it today.)
Chapter completed!