The smoke from the top of the mountains in the distance was drifting slowly on the continuous green mountains, boundless, as if it was like a fairyland. In a trance, I felt that there would be immortals flying in the clouds and fog flying out there, accompanied by colorful rays of clouds and white clouds, traveling towards the North Sea and Cangwu.

There are ponds at the foot of the mountain, mixed with large bamboo forests, and occasionally a few banana trees emerge, beating wide leaves to greet the fruitful papaya not far away.

This mountain dam has fertile land and abundant water and grass. It has been lying here quietly for thousands of years, waiting for the pioneers to reclaim it into fertile fields and become a land of fish and rice in Lingnan.

Lingnan, which is isolated from the world, is still like a prehistoric world, and such good land is still used as the She fields of natives, and it is slash-and-burned. Although there are oxen everywhere, it does not plow the land or grow seedlings. When the season comes, it will sow seeds at will, and it will not weed, irrigate or drain water. The harvest depends on the will of heaven.

Today is finally different.

Around a small hill, hundreds of people have cultivated the land and made neat rice fields. Some are driving buffalo to plow the fields, while others are looking at the seedlings in the rice fields with joy.

The mountains are covered with green grass and green carpets, wrapping the entire hill. The sparse fruit trees such as bananas, papayas, loquats, longans, etc. appear in the unknown, as if they are decorated on the carpet.

A circle of thatched huts were built halfway up the mountain, as if they were the houses in the picture.

The pastoral scenery of Lingnan is not as tough as the Central Plains, and is less elegant than Jiangnan, but it has a fairyland aura that transcends the mortal world.

Xu Ping was sitting on the green grass in front of the hut, looking at the letter intently, his mouth raised, and his smile on his face was like the green mountains and waters, as if it had lasted forever.

Last month, on April 13th, on the second hour of Wuyin on April 19th of the sixth year of Tiansheng, Lin Su Niang gave birth to a daughter, named Panpan, and he became her father. Although it was thousands of miles apart, it was impossible to take a look at her, which left countless regrets, and the joy of her descendants could not be hidden.

Not far away, Xiuxiu sat on a tree stump, tilting her little head and reading the letter, as if she was immersed. The small fruit next to her got off the horse and turned around leisurely, eating a bite of tender grass from time to time. Whether it was a human or a horse, they were carefree time, enjoying the leisure and tranquility of nature.

I don't know how many times it took, Xiao Ma came over and licked Xiuxiu's hand mischievously. Seeing Xiuxiu raise her head, she jumped a few steps away, and looked at Xiuxiu curiously with clear eyes.

Xiuxiu glanced at it, was in no mood to make trouble with it, put down the letter, sighed and said to Xu Ping next to her: "Officials, it's a pity that we can't look at Panpan's little lady at home."

"Yes, when we go back in two or three years, the little guys will leave and run away."

Xu Ping sighed and looked at the mountains in the distance with Xiuxiu, dazed intently.

"Sister Su'er is going to get married too-"

After a while, Xiuxiu felt leisurely and seemed a little melancholy that was inconsistent with her age.

Xu Ping smiled: "I didn't expect that I actually became my brother-in-law with Li Zhang."

Su'er's contract had expired, and she had no family, so she let her go out to have food and clothing. Lin Wensi recognized her as her daughter and promised her to Li Zhang. She would get married in two years. It was the time when Xu Ping returned to office to report his duties.

Before he knew it, his childhood playmates had grown up, Xu Ping was already a father, and Li Zhang was going to start a family and start a career. Although Su'er had been Lin Su Niang's personal maid, she was born in an official family, and the small family of generals did not pay attention to these things. She knew the roots and the bottom line, which was also a good marriage.

Only Xiuxiu is three years younger than Su'er, and is still a half-aged child at the age of twelve, but the best sister is about to get married, and she also feels that she has grown up a lot at once.

Xu Ping's letters from Lin Su Niang, and Xiu Xiu's letters from Su Er are always delivered at the same time. The content about the Xu family is similar, and there are some other things, such as Xiu Xiu's family, such as Xu Ping's official affairs, and acquaintances all the errands at home in the same year were arranged by Lin Su Niang.

Just as the two of them were thinking about flying back to the Central Plains, a loud voice came from the yard behind them: "Yanei, why do you give less money at a time than once? If this continues, I will make more money from picking tea than Gao Daquan to take people to farm the fields!"

Duan Yunjie's crisp voice sounded: "Mr. Huang County, now in May, the leaves of the tea tree are old and cannot make good tea. If Xu Tong had not asked him to keep collecting, I wouldn't have to say anything."

"Then I'll go and take people to farm the fields with Gao Daquan, and make money to buy wine and drink!"

A crisp laughter sounded: "Can Huang Wei plow the fields?"

This sentence obviously asked Huang Tianbiao, and after holding it in for a while, a dull voice broke out: "No! I can't learn it after trying for two days! If I can't farm the fields, I will build a house with Tan Hu, which will make a lot of money!"

"You have to be able to repair the house-"

You can imagine Duan Yunjie's smile that was so funny that she was blooming like a flower by Huang Tianbiao.

Xu Ping and Xiuxiu looked at each other and couldn't help laughing.

Before May had entered, news came from Jiaozhi. The leader Li Gongyun suddenly became seriously ill. Prince Li Foma of Jiaozhi hurried back to Shenglong Mansion (now Hanoi). The chaotic border suddenly became quiet.

Jiaozhi has always led his troops with princes. Although Li Foma was made the crown prince, it was not so easy to take over the position. According to Jiaozhi's habit, the crown prince only took the lead in the position of successor, and had to take over the position as the king and the will of the previous king when he died. At this time, the king Li Gongyun had six genuine queens in power at the same time. No one could tell what the old king would do, not to mention that each prince had fought with his soldiers, and it took a few years for Jiaozhi to be quiet.

Feng Shenji's troops in Yizhou had just been mobilized, but there was no need to go south after receiving the news. Xu Ping no longer had the task of preparing money and food for them. The troubled Yongzhou finally calmed down, and everything was on the track of step by step again. Naturally, the errands, the judge Zhou Tianxing, and the recorder Li Yonglun, handled the miscellaneous matters. As long as Xu Ping signed and sealed the letter, he was not in the mood to cause trouble and was happy to be idle.

As soon as he was free, Xu Ping became interested in developing agriculture around Ruhe County. He used his own authority to concentrate hundreds of farmers in Ruhe County in the name of settlement. According to the practice of Zhongmu Manor, he opened land to grow sugarcane on dry land and planted rice near the water.

Cao Keming saw the military capital deposits recently earning a lot of money, but he felt unbalanced. It was not until Xu Ping put the pepper-making industry under the ministerial warehousing that he agreed to this plan and reported to the Transportation Commission. Wang Weizheng approved it.

Gao Daquan had the experience of growing rice in the village, so he naturally took the job of leading people to open fields and grow rice. Because the military farming was to be permanently occupied, Xu Ping thought Ruhe County was too small, so he chose this place five miles away from the county town to build a house as his base. Tan Hu, the man who built the house, took it.

With experience in his previous life, Xu Ping paid wages to these people who worked in the name of rewards, which made Huang Tianbiao who was greedy for nothing. As the county magistrate of the lowest-class county, he did not have a part-time job to add money, and the local officials did not have any extra money to pay. Huang Tianbiao's monthly salary was only six or seven jin of coins, and after all, he got less than five jin of coins per month. This guy was delicious and delicious, and he couldn't eat this little money and meat. He pestered Xu Ping to do the job he wanted to make money, so Xu Ping asked him to take him up the mountain to pick tea and make money according to the amount of picking.

Huang Tianbiao turned out to be the master of the small cave nearby. He was so familiar that he could not be more familiar in the mountains. He took more than 20 of his original tribe members around the mountains every day and made a lot of money. However, as the seasons changed, the price of collecting money was getting lower and lower, and today it finally broke out.

Duan Yunjie made tea by herself, and she was extremely smart. After hearing Xu Ping's words, she mastered the process of making tea twice. She was invited to make tea with a group of young women. Although she was wearing men's clothing, no one regarded him as a man, and the tea making industry was booming.

The weather here is humid and the traffic remains unchanged, and the tea industry is easy to get moldy. Xu Ping made black tea that was completely fermented in later generations, pressed into large tea bricks, and was about to walk the path of the ancient tea-horse road that had not yet appeared. The remaining broken tea was completely chopped, wrapped in bamboo paper into small tea bags, and made into tea bags, and experiments were being conducted.

Huang Tianbiao complained for a long time, but he couldn't say that Duan Yunjie was clumsy and walked out of the yard unhappily and bowed to Xu Ping: "Shangguan, I won't pick this tea anymore, the money I earned is enough to buy wine!"

Xu Ping held back his smile and said, "I think you can earn seven or eight guan a month now. You can buy several tanks of any good wine. How come it is not enough to buy wine?"

Huang Tianbiao said embarrassedly: "These days I have been working hard, I drink the new jade liquor from Xianlou in the city of Zhoucheng. Shangguan, you don't know how expensive that wine is. I can't buy a liter of it forever! Is such expensive wine drunk by people? Is it a scam that I'm so fooling me!"

"If you don't drink it, you still drink it? That wine is for rich people. Are you very rich?"

Seeing Xu Ping's face rising, Huang Jinbiao hurriedly said, "Shangguan Shuju, it's not that I want to drink, I can't help it. I feel uncomfortable if I don't drink for a day! You said this, I wanted to make money and get a wife, but who knew that I would send it to the restaurant! What should I do?"

Xu Ping said angrily: "Simple, just quit your alcohol addiction!"

"It's not possible! Shangguan doesn't know. If a person like me doesn't have alcohol, it's meaningless to live! If you can't even drink, will life be boring?"

Xiuxiu made a face at Huang Jinbiao: "You big man, not only tastes good at drinking, but also likes to eat! I have seen you ask someone to bring delicious food back from the state city several times. How expensive is that!"

Huang Tianbiao stared at Xiuxiu and said, "You little girl, what do you know! Isn't life just eating and drinking? It's not for the sake of good food and drink. I have the final say in everything I have to do with my tribe members in the mountains! You, a woman, how can you understand the ambitions of men!"

Xu Ping looked at Huang Tianbiao and was speechless. It was nothing wrong for people to want to enjoy themselves, but it was difficult to understand how to persist in eating and drinking as the first goal of life like Huang Tianbiao. You can't tell Huang Tianbiao about this principle. He insisted that he was right, and his tribe members actually thought that he was right. What kind of political future is completely incomprehensible to them. How many kilograms of beef can they exchange for?

"What do you want?" Xu Ping asked Huang Tianbiao impatiently.

Huang Tianbiao said seriously: "Shangguan changed my job and I have to fight for a 15-ton stake in a month, which is enough for me to have a liter of jade wine a day."

Xu Ping smiled: "There is one thing to do, that is, you know if you can do it."

Huang Tianbiao showed a vigilant look: "Shangguan, let's make an agreement first. I won't be able to build a house like Gao Daquan and Tan Hu. Don't be embarrassed by it!"

"You won't let you do that, of course you have to use your expertise. You are very ripe in the Xidong Tuzhou and Tuzhou County in the surrounding mountains. Now we have made tea, and there are also the chopped peppers that the minister Curry has started selling recently. If you sell these things to the locals in the mountains, I will give you a commission. As long as you work hard, you will definitely make much more money than Gao Daquan and Tan Hu. What do you think?"

"Let me sell things?"

"Of course, don't you know that in this world, except officials, are businessmen the most profitable? These two types of people turn other people's things into money and put them in their own pockets. Which industry can compare with them?"
Chapter completed!