In the sunset, Zhang Sanniang and Lin Suniang sat together and chatted. Panpan was squatting alone under the tree and didn't know what they were looking at. Xu was holding a teacup and smiling at Panpan.

Seeing Xu Ping coming home, he ran over like Panpan and asked, "Dad, are we going back to the countryside tomorrow? It's not fun in the capital, I want to go back!"

Xu Ping took Panpan's hand, looked at Lin Suniang with a big belly, and said to Panpan: "Okay, our family will go back to the countryside tomorrow, and it will be quiet there."

As he said that, he took the newly bought cherries for Panpan: "Take them and have them wash them, and eat them when they come back."

Panpan cheered, carried the small basket and ran away like a flying one.

Panpan is now at the age of time, and Xu Zheng and Zhang Sanniang are struggling to see her. When Lin Wensi was an official outside, she married another wife and became pregnant. This year, compared with this year, there were a lot fewer students in the Imperial College after the imperial examination. Lin Wensi took leave and went to Xu Ping's manor in Zhongmu with his wife to take care of her baby. Lin Suniang went back with Xu Zheng and his wife, and someone was talking with her, and many people took care of Panpan.

His brother-in-law is much younger than his daughter, and Xu Ping thinks it is strange when he thinks about this. However, this kind of thing is very common in this era. It is normal for men to add children to their children in their sixties and seventies, not to mention that Lin Wensi is not very old at all.

Seeing Panpan running away, Xu Zheng touched his beard and said to Xu Ping: "Dalang, I moved another official two days ago, saying that Guangbei attacked the city and made artillery according to your method, and your additional official was sent back to my head. If you add one official position and one official position, maybe I can still be a member of the official position."

Xu Ping smiled and said, "It's not just Yuanwailang. I will do a few more things to get my father to be a doctor!"

Xu Zheng just laughed. He usually won’t be able to move a few ranks of officials in his life, but he has not been promoted slowly by his son. Now Xu Ping’s own official has reached the end of his orderly transfer. If he has the opportunity to be promoted in the future, he can only give him a reply to Xu Zheng. According to this momentum, he is really likely to be promoted to a doctor. With a group of old brothers, his face will be shining.

From the time Xu Ping returned to the capital, he transported the cannons used in Yongzhou to return to Beijing and imitated them. Xu did not take such a heart to do this. It took him a year to make the craftsmanship and make large iron cannons. This speed was thanks to the iron yard built outside the city after the Qiaodaoxiang Army entered Beijing, which supplied high-quality steel.

In the war in the northwest, the Song army was mostly attacked in the field, which was completely different from when Hebei faced the Khitan. Even with artillery to defend the city, it was afraid that the war situation would not be changed, so Xu Ping was not attentive. The current situation is that the Khitan did not have the ability to attack south, and there was no urgent need for this weapon to defend the city. The northwest was also field battles, and in fact, Dangxiang had worse siege than the Khitan, and the advantages of artillery were not available.

If Xu Ping wanted to get the current imperial guards to be incorporated into field artillery, he would shake his head if he thought about it. The most likely consequence was that once the war started in the northwest, these artillery would fall into the hands of the Dangxiang people, which would give them the ability to attack the city.

After thinking about it, unless you go to the northwest by yourself, you would still let Guangbei attack the city and make a few large cannons, and it would be more stable to install it at the top of the Bianjing city. How to cooperate with the field troops should be better to explore slowly.

Whether compared with Dangxiang or Khitan, the equipment of the Song army, especially the imperial guards, was not bad. If they could not defeat others, they would not have to look for the reason in terms of military system. Xu Ping is not concerned about military affairs now and does not worry about that.

Panpan found a maid to wash the cherry casserole, shook it back with the basket, and came to Xu Ping and his son, holding the basket and saying to Xu Zheng, "Weng Weng, the cherries are sweet, you eat them first."

Xu Zheng smiled and took one and said, "Panpan, you bought it for you."

Panpan giggled and said, "What I bought for me is mine. I will give it to Weng Weng first, and then to my mother-in-law and mother."

After saying that, he grimaced at Xu Ping, jumped and carried a small basket, and went to Zhang Sanniang and Lin Suniang like a treasure.

Looking at Panpan, Xu Ping and Xu Zheng both had smiles on their faces. Raising a child is not easy, and being able to raise a smart and sensible child is a blessing for several lifetimes. Now Panpan makes Xu Ping feel that it is his own blessing.

Not long after, Panpan turned back with a small basket and held it for Xu Ping: "For my father, it will be the last thing Panpan will eat. I am the youngest at home, so I will eat it for the last time."

Xu Ping held a cherry in his mouth and touched Panpan's head.

Seeing Panpan alone carrying a small basket and sitting aside happily eating cherries, Xu Zheng's face was full of love.

After looking at it for a while, he suddenly remembered that Xu Zheng said to Xu Ping: "By the way, Dalang, someone sent you a letter from Yongzhou. I put it away, but I forgot it for a while."

After saying that, he took out a letter from his sleeve and handed it to Xu Ping.

Xu Ping took the letter apart and took it out to see it. Unexpectedly, it was written by Tan Hu and Huang Jinbiao.

Huang Jinbiao's business is getting bigger and bigger. He thought of coming to the capital to see if there is any chance, so he asked Xu Ping for his opinion. Tan Hu was building a zhizhai on Yongliang Road. He felt that there was no future and hoped that Xu Ping would help him move, either to the mainland or to his hometown, Fujian Road.

Unlike Zhang Rong and others, Tan Hu has no experience of fighting on the front line and has always been with Xu Ping. Although he has made contributions and was promoted, his future is very unclear. It would be fine if he is satisfied with being a small official, but Yongliang Road is still vast and sparsely populated, and small villages are often in poor mountains and rivers. Tan Hu is a little unwilling to accept it.

Xu Ping thought for a while and silently put away the letter.

Huang Jinbiao is not a shrewd businessman. His greatest ability is that he is brave. He dares to do what others dare not do. This is his greatest capital for making a fortune. Xu Ping used to take care of him when he was there, and the more money he made, but now Fan Feng is on Yongliang Road, but he doesn't have so many opportunities to give him.

Seeing Xu Ping not speaking after reading the letter, Xu Zheng asked with concern: "Why, Dalang has encountered a difficult situation?"

Xu Ping smiled at his father: "No, it's just a letter from an old friend in Yongzhou who came to greet him."

Since Huang Jinbiao was brave enough, Xu Ping decided to give him another chance. Wang Bin contacted Goryeo's own family and agreed to open a trade route with Song, so he let Huang Jinbiao go for some trouble.

As for Tan Hu, Xu Ping decided to find a way to transfer him to the capital. He was familiar with him, and there was a tacit understanding between the two, and no one of the followers around him could compare to him.

A low-level military officer like Tan Hu can be a wise village in Lingnan where the sky is high and the emperor is far away. If you return to the capital, you will be nothing. Only following Xu Ping is the best way out.
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