The peach blossoms outside the mountain began to fall, but the peach blossoms in the mountain were just in full bloom.

Sang Yi sat on a big stone, looking at the brilliant sea of ​​cuckoos around him, and occasionally picking out a shy peach tree, sighing at the beautiful scenery that belongs to Lingnan.

There is spring in the Central Plains, a sea of ​​flowers, and a beautiful peach blossom, but it is not in the mountains and fields of Yongzhou. These flowers bloom so unrestrainedly and unrestrainedly.

Sun Qilang trotted and took an iron basin and placed it on a small wooden table not far away. He roared his hot hands and shouted to Sang Yi: "Scholar, come here to have a meal!"

Sang Yi stood up, came to the table, and asked Sun Qilang: "What is in this basin? It smells so good!"

"Haha, a pair of bamboo chickens!" Sun Qilang said while tidying up the table: "Scholar, come here to follow us, but I have a good taste. I can't finish eating wild game every day!"

Sang Yi laughed when he heard this: "Qilang, you are wandering around the mountains every day, of course wild game is indispensable. That is, Gao Daquan can tolerate you. If the officials see it, they will inevitably talk about you."

"I've eaten a lot of wild game. What did he say to me? Besides, I came here to help him, and it's enough to get the meaning. Could it be that I really let me move the stones!"

Sun Qilang is always polite and looks proud, as if he will never grow up, and others can do nothing to him. Only Xu Ping is there, Sun Qilang is still a little afraid of others. He is used to being too big or small to others, and he can say whatever he wants.

Gao Daquan came over and sat down on the table with an iron basin and a full of meat.

"What is this?" Sang Yi asked curiously.

Sun Qilang picked up the chopsticks and said, "The frogs are all so fat that they can't jump anymore. They are fresh and fat. Try it!"

Sang Yi picked up the chopsticks and picked up a piece of it and chewed it slowly in his mouth. He nodded and said, "I am a little tired in the mountains. But you are living a happy life!"

"Hehe, the official praised me for treating work as fun and the highest level! Gao Daquan, you see, he looked bitter, the official said, he would not do this. It is not good for work, nor is it good for himself." Sun Qilang picked up the bottle and poured wine into the bowl, shaking his head while saying it. "The official said that he was in a bad state, so this is wrong, do you know? Gao Daquan! Learn more from me in the future, be a man, and be more open to everything!"

Gao Daquan was too lazy to pay attention to him and said to Sang Yi: "Scholar, let's drink!"

The three of them clinked a cup. After eating a few bites of the dishes, Sun Qilang said again: "There are fish and a soup of mountain. This thing is always eaten by officials. We have learned to eat it a few times, and the taste is actually pretty good."

Sang Yi stayed in Kaifeng City for nearly half a year and had a hard life. At the most difficult time, he fell into the house of Xu Ping and Li Zhang. It was a tear of bitterness. Finally, he chose to come to Yongzhou. He was also a desperate fight, and he was in a depressed mood. Xu Ping's temperament would not enlighten people. It was not until he stayed with Gao Daquan and Sun Qilang that his mood gradually became brighter.

After a while, all the dishes were served, the three of them were drunk and they got drunk within a bottle of wine.

Sang Yi ate happily and asked Sun Qilang: "I have been here for two days. Why do you always have three dishes and one soup? Is it true that the officials still care about you?"

Sun Qilang said: "Oh, scholar, you don't know. Officials care about everything! At most, three dishes and one soup are eaten. Officials set rules for sugar responsibilities. Who dares to violate the rules of officials? But? Officials don't care what kind of dishes are. Radish and green vegetables are a dish, beef and fat chicken are also a dish. Our bamboo chicken and oil fish are still a dish, haha!"

Sang Yi smiled and shook his head. Xu Ping did have this habit. He had many rules, but he was not strict. He seemed to deliberately leave some space for his subordinates. I don’t know what it means.

After dinner, the three of them sat halfway up the mountain for a while. Sun Qilang said to Sang Yi: "Scholar, you will follow me into the mountain in the afternoon, and you will bring you many novel things! Don't go with Gao Daquan. His place is filled with stones all day long, making people upset!"

Sang Yi shook his head: "The official asked me to come here, but it was not because he came to the mountains to visit. He said that the area of ​​Zuojiang Road was just a place for sugar sugar, so he came to let you and Gao Daquan take me to see. After seeing this clearly, you will know what Zuojiang Road looks like. Let's do this, you will take me around in the afternoon. Gao Daquan is busy, so I won't bother him."

Sun Qilang shook his head: "Scholar, you guys have been studying for two years, why are you so rigid? The official asked you to come and read it everywhere? I'll just talk to you. When the official asked, there was an explanation."

Sang Yi smiled and said to Sun Qilang: "Let's go, let's ride around the horse."

Although they have a good relationship and are under Xu Ping, their identities are different after all. Sun Qilang and Gao Daquan are Xu Ping's servants. They are family members, and the so-called living and wealth are family members. Sang Yi works under Xu Ping with the salary of the court. He is a colleague. How could he be as casual as Sun Qilang?

Sun Qilang had no choice but to let someone lead the horse and wander around the newly opened sugar fields with Sang Yi.

After turning around Sang Yi, I found that the newly opened sugarcane fields were all on some gentle hills, from the foot of the mountain to the middle of the mountain, and the top of the mountain was still forested.

Each piece of sugarcane field is connected by different roads of different widths and narrowness, and finally it joins a road leading to the foot of the mountain, which connects to the road from Luobai, Shanguli to Qianlongdong.

Gao Daquan led people to repair these big roads, and the path leading to the fields was built by people who were working on sugarcane fields. Before coming, Sang Yi thought that Gao Daquan was built by Luo Bai to Qianlongdong, but he didn't expect that there were so many roads connected to the mountains.

Where the road down the mountain meets the main road, there are settlements for sugar workers, and next to the settlement is a sugar yard.

The road on Zuojiang Road is like the roots of a big tree, lying between these mountains, and sugar must attach to these roots, use this road, and provide nutrients for the big trees.

Looking at the branches stretching towards the surrounding hills, Sang Yi asked Sun Qihuang: "Qilang, is this the sugar fields of all sugarcane services like this? They are all connected by road?"

"Of course! Otherwise, it won't work. Scholar, you have to squeeze sugar immediately after cutting the sugarcane. If you put it on for one day, you will lose a little sugar. White sugar is not rare here, and it is expensive to transport it outside! We have tens of thousands of families who are all supported by the white things!"

Sang Yi nodded: "I came from the capital and naturally knew the preciousness of sugar. Speaking of which, I couldn't afford it at that time, but now it's everywhere."

After saying that, Sang Yi shook his head with a wry smile. He had known before that he had changed his position as a county magistrate of Shan County. He thought that he would have to go to the capital to change his life. He didn't bring too much money. He didn't expect that he would stay there for half a year. The prices in the capital were expensive. After more than a month, the house price could not be paid. He was thin-skinned. After all, he was an official and was embarrassed. Why did he feel embarrassed to ask for money from his family? He just survived so hard and moved around. In the end, Lin Su Niang heard about his embarrassment and forced him to take it over.

It would be great for officials in the Song Dynasty to have official positions. Once they step down, it would be fine if they don’t have to be elected. If they stay in the capital for a year or two, their family fortunes will be emptied for many years.

For military officials, the ambassadors are a hurdle. After crossing this hurdle, they will be prosperous and wealthy. If they can't get over it, they will eventually become empty. Civil officials and Beijing officials are a hurdle. At least the judges' courts are a hurdle. Even if the place is not good, they will find a place to settle it. The low-level candidates crowded at the gate of Liumenquan are difficult to bear, and there are not many people. The officials in the yamen looked ugly and dark, and they were unlucky for two or three years.

Lin Wensi has Xu Ping as his son-in-law. Although Xu Ping is not a figure in the eyes of middle and senior civil servants, the selection of low-level people is a high-ranking person, and it is completely different from them. With such a big tree leaning against, Lin Wensi has been guarding for more than three months.

Thinking of those days, Sang Yi was really unbearable to look back on. Everyone wanted to be an official, but I didn’t know that not everyone who was an official could eat delicious food and drink spicy food. The hard work in the middle was not worthy of being a person.

Walking down the newly built road, I arrived at the newly built Sugar House settlement. Sang Yi saw that they were all made of gray bricks, with red tiles on it. There were three main houses in a row, two wing rooms in the east and west, and a square yard. The houses were all the same height, width and narrow. Four families were in a row, and there were streets in front and behind the houses, and there were all alleys in the same direction. There were four alleys in the same direction.

Thinking of the scene I saw on the road, Sang Yi smiled bitterly and said, "Qilang, can all the houses of Sucrose Service be the same? Why do I see this on the road I came here too?"

"Of course the same! The official said that the houses can be built quickly, save materials, labor and cheap. Scholar, you have to know that Sugar Service has built tens of thousands of rooms in recent years, which can save a lot of money!"

"But every village is the same and the house is the same, it's too monotonous!"

Sun Qilang said seriously: "We rough people, no matter how monotonous and fancy they are! However, there is one thing I have to remind you that every village belonging to the sugar business is really the same. Don't get lost here! Otherwise, you can't tell where it is when you enter the village, and you don't know what village you entered!"

"Then there will always be a village name."

"Yes! I tell you that there is a white wall in the village where you enter the village. The village name is written on it, and it is numbered in Thousand Characters. Our yamen is the number one in Tianzi! But I can't recognize Thousand Characters. It's a pain to get lost! But you are a scholar, so don't worry about these."

Sang Yi looked at these small villages connected by the road, remembering that all the strong men under the Sugar Sugar Service that Xu Ping told him were actually included in the village soldier version, and the teachings were read every March. The two village soldiers with command numbers that Gao Daquan told him were actually selected and were selected elite personnel, and each person was at least the leader of a team when he went back. In addition to the officers who retired from the original wing army, how long does it take for Sugar Sugar Service to expand a large army?

Two days ago, Xu Ping told Sang Yi about the situation facing Zuojiang Road. When talking about the strange spirit in Guangyuanzhou and Jiadong, Sang Yi only now understood why.

Now the former retired military personnel of Fujian were received by Sugar Sugar Services. There were about 20,000 people from Fujian. There were about 30,000 strong men from Fujian. In addition, there were nearly 30,000 people recruited locally, with a total of more than 80,000 households and more than 200,000 households, which had long exceeded the number of households registered in Yongzhou when Xu Ping came. At that time, the number of registered households on Guangnan West Road was only more than 200,000. How could you imagine that Sugar Sugar Services would reach this scale in a few years?

Of course, at that time, there were few households. The reason was that a large number of local officials did not enter the nationality, but the more than 50,000 households from Fujian were real.

The sugar sugar business now is like a monster. The road extends wherever it extends and firmly takes root. As the road reaches Simingzhou last year, and this year it reaches Qianlongdong, the entire Zuojiang Road has been occupied by the sugar sugar business, and its tentacles begin to extend to Jiadong and Guangyuanzhou. (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!