Sang Yi brought Xu Ping's family letter, and there was nothing major at home. However, his father-in-law Lin Wensi left his former position and was appointed as the chief clerk of Queshan County, Caizhou. Xu Xian married Xu Ping and was also the daughter of a devastated official family. After Li Zhang and Su Er got married, they gave birth to a fat son, which has been a hundred days since they were young.

After receiving the news, Xu Ping hurriedly prepared a gift and asked someone to send it back with the gift Xiuxiu gave to Suer. The relationship between the two families was extraordinary, and this kind of etiquette was indispensable.

Li Yong and his first term as a Kaocheng County inspector were completed, but the change was unsuccessful and he continued to stay in Kaocheng County.

Although the system of investigation is complete in this era, not everyone can be promoted smoothly according to the annual qualifications. Even for lower-level officials, it is good luck to not change their official positions and re-election directly. Because whether it is a mounting or various subsidies are assigned according to actual positions, the officials will not suffer any losses as long as they do it. On the contrary, once they enter the big pit to be selected, their income and benefits will suddenly decrease. I don’t know that it will be vacancies in the year of the monkey and horses, and that day will be difficult.

After accompanying Sang Yi to visit Taiping County for two days, Xu Ping accompanied him out of Taiping County. Sang Yi went to Qianlongdong to find Gao Daquan, while Xu Ping checked the newly opened sugar fields of sugar sugar business.

It was mid-February, and the apricot blossoms had just fallen and peach blossoms were in full bloom. From time to time, a bright red branch was picked out in front of and behind the houses in Taiping County, and the pictures of spring were dyed.

Walking in this painting, people seem to have become much more elegant and quiet, and they forget the hustle and bustle of the world for a moment.

Xu Ping and Sang Yi rode side by side in front, and Tan Hu followed with ten soldiers, and the sound of horse hooves hit the stone road with a crisp sound, and walked out of Taiping County along the stream.

As soon as you leave the county town, the rape flowers are blooming in full bloom. From a distance, they look like a yellow ocean, boundless. In this yellow sea of ​​flowers, there are pink peach blossoms and fire-like kapok flowers, one cluster in the east and another cluster in the west, making the sea of ​​flowers add countless vitality.

The various azaleas on the hill not far away dyed the forest colorfully, surrounding the ocean of camellia, like a colorful wreath.

Sang Yi stopped the horse, looked at the sea of ​​flowers, the colorful pictures-like world, and exclaimed: "At that time, I pointed to Zuo Jiangdao's errands, and my family was about to die. I thought I would never return to the Central Plains again. Everyone said that Lingnan has many malaria, especially Yongzhou, and most officials would die here. But I didn't expect that after coming, this scene would be better than the prosperity of the Central Plains. I have never been to Jiangnan, but I just heard that everyone thought Jiangnan was good. In my opinion, Jiangnan was just like this."

After hearing this, Tan Hu smiled and said, "It's good when the inspector came. If a few years ago, Tongzong first came to Yongzhou, there would be no miasma everywhere, and even beasts would often come out to hurt people. At that time, as Tongzong inspected various counties, I would always pluck the courage to beat tigers. Since Tongzong opened the sugarcane fields and built sugar sugar services, the fields were all opened up. The population was too large and the miasma was gone. In the past two years, there was no such thing as tigers hurt people. In Wuyuan County, just the Chongge County, who dealt with the tiger-killing, I felt very distressed. Two days ago, I saw their county magistrate. When talking about this, he said that it was the hunters who are now rushing to kill tigers in the mountains for tiger skins. How could it be imagined?"

Sang Yi looked at Xu Ping and sighed: "How many years you have been here, it's really a different place. In other words, your official promotion in recent years is no less than that in the past, but if you really come here to see it, I'm afraid everyone will think it's not enough to reward you for your hard work over the past few years."

Kou Zhun passed the Jinshi Yi class at the age of 19. He was a Jinshi in the fifth year of Taiping Xingguo. At the age of 30, he was the deputy envoy of the Privy Council and was ranked as the chief minister. His promotion was rapid and his youth when he entered the center was unprecedented. People in this era said that he was promoted quickly, and often took Kou Zhun as an example. Xu Ping's promotion was faster than Kou Zhun at that time.

Xu Ping had memories of his previous life, and looked at the problems from different perspectives, but he knew that Kou Zhun was because of his special era background. Emperor Taizong was in a bad position and urgently needed to use new political forces to overwhelm the nobles in power at that time and consolidate his hard-won throne. This was why literati who was born in Jinshi were vigorously promoted, and Kou Zhun was able to have Kou Zhun, and the Jinshi talents were abundant in the third, fourth and fifth years of Taiping and Prospering the Kingdom, and many famous officials emerged. The appearance of these people led to the sad ending of Zhao Pu, a famous prime minister in the early Song Dynasty.

Literati who was a Jinshi came to the front stage, the nobles left, and the literati became the protagonists of the Song Dynasty.

How can one simple comparison be made with an era?

Life is like a stage, we are just a small character on the stage. Even if some people think they are the protagonist, they try their best to attract every gaze, and think they can dominate the changes in the whole world. But no matter how glorious you are on the stage, when the end, you will eventually find that you are just a small decoration on the stage, and the real protagonist will never appear on the stage.

There is no one watching the play on the stage of life, and there is no protagonist on the stage of life. We are all on this stage arranged by others, and we are all small characters.

After hearing Sang Yi's words, Xu Ping looked at the endless sea of ​​flowers in front of him and said lightly: "We have known each other for many years. You know that my family has thousands of hectares of good land, herds of cattle and sheep, and a beautiful wife and young daughter. We already have wealth for me. Taking the Jinshi and becoming an official is a matter of gaining a background, and it is just that high and low officials."

"Although that's the case, officials are appointed and entitled, and rewarded. If you do these things, you should receive corresponding rewards. Otherwise, what's the point of doing us officials?"

After hearing Sang Yi's words, Xu Ping didn't say anything, but just shook his head and urged the horse to move forward.

It always sounds nice to say, but the better it sounds, the more discouraged it will be when you reveal the coat and see the facts. It is very happy to sit in this seat to deceive yourself. If you don’t want to deceive yourself, you shake your head and ignore it.

All the way to Luobai, it was noon that everyone got off the horse and found a tavern to have some wine and food.

As the saying goes, peach blossoms bloom and rain start. The flowering period in Yongzhou comes early and the rain also comes early. At this time, the water in the river begins to rise, the weather becomes warmer, and various fish, turtles, shrimps and crabs are active. It is also a habit brought by Xu Ping. Rich families also start to eat shrimps and turtles, and even this roadside shop sells good mountain soup.

Xu Ping and Sang Yi sat at the same table, Tan Hu played with him, and poured wine and added food.

Since I arrived in Yongzhou, Xu Ping has been used to entering the store to get a plate of beef to appetizer. He ordered a few local side dishes and drank three cups with Sang Yi.

After chatting for a few words, Sang Yi looked at the road in front of the store and asked Xu Ping: "Since I entered Lingnan and came down from Guizhou, there were all this kind of stone-paved road. The horses walked very lightly, and the hooves were grinding hard. I also asked the locals, and they all said that they learned from Yongzhou. Is there any saying that the road is paved like this? When I was in the Central Plains, even the official road was just a solid foundation, why is it different here?"

Xu Ping thought for a while and said, "The geography of the north and the south is different. The north is dry, so there is no problem with the rammed earth road. Lingnan is not allowed. When it rains in the rainy season, it will rain continuously. When the road is not dry, how can rammed earth be soaked? The roadbeds under this road are covered with large stones, with small stones on top, and small stones mixed with loess on the top. The rainwater can flow down the cracks of the rocks so that water will not accumulate. In such a wet place, this kind of road is still suitable, even the stone road is not as good as the stone road. The stone road is slippery on rainy days and it is broken faster."

Sang Yi nodded: "It makes sense, and it is indeed easy to walk."

Where can Sang Yi think clearly about the real truth? However, Xu Ping has already explained the general idea and will always be able to figure it out after life here for a long time.

Xu Ping said: "But this kind of road is also delicate, and someone must be maintained at all times. The drainage ditches on the roadside cannot be blocked, otherwise the roadbed will be damaged. The stones on the road will slowly be ground into powder, and someone will have to spread them in a few days. My sugar responsibilities are specially equipped with a commander to maintain the surrounding roads. After passing Guwanzhai, the road there is to maintain the prison soldiers, and it is not careless at all."

This is actually the sand and gravel roads in later generations. Because Xu Ping was paved in large numbers in his previous life, some places were also called "national defense roads". They looked inconspicuous, but there were many things to pay attention to. The biggest benefit of this road was not what Xu Ping mentioned, but overloaded vehicles. Since the roadbed was covered with stones and there were small stones on it, when heavy vehicles passed, the small stones stuck into the cracks of the large stones, which made the road have a certain degree of elasticity and would not be damaged as soon as it was pressed. However, there were no heavy trucks in this era, and this biggest benefit was useless.

But in rainy areas, this kind of road is still very suitable, and it is convenient to carry cars and horses. As for cement roads and asphalt roads, they are luxury things that can only be laid on a large scale in industrial society. The little cement burned in Yongzhou cellars is not enough to build dams and canals, so there is no extra road paving. Besides, the maintenance of cement roads is even more troublesome, and it is purely a heavy burden for the agricultural society. Xu Ping had no plans from the beginning.

Sang Yi was drinking and looking at the pedestrians on the road, and felt that when he came to Yongzhou, he could not see through Xu Ping. When he was farming in Zhongmu, Xu Ping had all kinds of wonderful ideas, which could be said that he had planted flowers even more. Unexpectedly, when he came to Lingnan, there were still various interesting strange ideas. Sang Yi was a person who had been traveling around the country for many years and worked at the grassroots level for a few years. Naturally, he knew that this path was not as simple as Xu Ping said. It was difficult to walk in Lingnan. If Xu Ping really wanted to spread this over Lingnan, it would be like creating another Jiangnan for the Song Dynasty.

In the city, there are stone roads on both sides of the road, and even drainage ditches are built under the stone slabs. The stone slabs do not delay vendors setting up stalls and pedestrians walking, which is really convenient.

The Song Dynasty did not have a special way to separate pedestrian roads, but they were a few limited places in Tokyo. This way, the roads were divided into pedestrian and bicycles and laid on a large scale. Yongzhou was the first one.

Back then, he met Xu Ping by chance in Zhongmu, and this little brother gave him a lot of surprises. Unexpectedly, the surprise became even greater after coming to Yongzhou.

I don't know if there is anything strange waiting for him in the following days.
Chapter completed!