Fang Xie smacked his lips after a glass of wine: "I don't know how much wine tastes in the world. Only the strong smell of wine on the county marquis' mansion is real wine. The others are just water. A little bit of wine tastes like the best."

Liu Ying looked at Fang Xie and said disdainfully: "Wine is a good wine, but when you drink a cow like this, it is like a cow chewing peonies, which is useless. You should learn from Han Zhigui when drinking. Drinking in small sips, you can taste it carefully before you can get the taste."

"If you can't drink, how do you know it's good wine?"

Fang Xie is the number one drunk among these people. He was not able to be squeezed by Liu Han. He didn't finish a word and had another drink.

After all, strong liquor is strong liquor, which is not as generous as water liquor. No matter how much alcohol is, you should be dizzy after drinking half a bottle of wine. You should know that the most popular one at this time was a large bottle of two liters, and small bottles of one liter are not common, but unlike Xu Ping's previous life, a bottle of wine was less than a liter of this era.

Because the wine bottles were inconvenient to use, Xu Ping specially asked someone to cook several sets of wine utensils in Ruzhou, including small wine glasses and larger wine-dividing wine warming utensils, which gradually became popular in Kaifeng City.

Wang Gongchen was in charge of warming wine at the bottom. Before the wine was hot, Liu Weng and Fang Kai had already eaten two cups. They were much older than Wang Gongchen, and they didn't look at Wang Gongchen, the top scholar, differently, and were extremely comfortable.

After a moment of warming the wine, Wang Gongchen got up and filled everyone with it. If the literati and doctors were drinking at home, the work of these people should be done by the maids of the subordinates. Xu Ping did not have any singing girls at home, and there was no reason to find a servant to pour wine. Wang Gongchen, the youngest, took it over and took it over, and he was free to eat and drink with nothing.

After three rounds of wine, Xu Ping said to Wang Bin: "Since Pang Chunzhi arrived in Yongzhou to recommend sugar sugar, the harvest of sugar this year is much greater than in the past few years. If the price is reduced, I am afraid that it will not be sold out. Although sugar is not afraid of backlog, with Liangzhou, it is more suitable for planting sugar cane. Sugar can be more likely to be over a year later. It is always impossible to keep it backlog."

Wang Bin put down his wine glass and said, "What do you think of the deputy envoy?"

"Since I was in Yongzhou two years ago, I have sent some sugar down the Yujiang River every year to Guangzhou and sold overseas through the Maritime Mansion Company. Last year, Guangzhou sold 800,000 yuan, making a considerable profit. However, the South China Sea waterway is unstable, and most of the ships are operated by Persian Hu merchants, and the number of exports cannot be increased. Your family is also in Goryeo, so this year you might as well find a way to sell some to Goryeo. The sea route from Mingzhou to Goryeo is close to. I heard that the wind will arrive in just two or three days. In this way, our sugar has more sales, and your family can also make some interest in distributing sugar in Goryeo."

Based on the knowledge of his previous life, Xu Ping naturally knew that Europe and Central Asia were big sugar consumers, but now the sea routes are controlled by Persians, and they also have the source of Indian sugar, so they are not willing to help the Song Dynasty sell sugar. Xu Ping's identity is limited and he can't control it so far. He can only expand the sales route and make the idea of ​​Goryeo and Japan in the northeast.

During the Zhidao period, Goryeo changed the Khitan to the original month of the year, and in fact it had cut off contacts with the Song Dynasty. Japan was even more dissatisfied. After the Anshi Rebellion of the Tang Dynasty, it banned seas and restricted business. Not only did it have no political interactions with the Central Plains dynasty, but it was strictly restricted in business and personnel exchanges, and was in a state of isolation. Because Japan had a "buy ban" and restricted the frequency of merchants in the Song Dynasty, it was very troublesome to trade there. Goryeo had at least no restrictions on trade. Wang Bin's family was also a big bureaucratic businessman there, so Xu Ping wanted to open a gap from Goryeo. If the path was smooth, he could also sell it to Japan.

Diplomacy is a reflection of national strength. If national strength cannot be improved, foreign trade will be subject to numerous restrictions. If the Song Dynasty could win several major victories against the Khitan, or even take back the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun, the attitudes of small surrounding countries would inevitably change immediately.

However, Xu Ping is now the deputy envoy of salt and iron. He can only think about those things, but it is not his turn to care about them. No one will listen to them when he says it. It is good to have the world in mind, but it will be annoying if it is inappropriate.

Wang Bin thought for a while and said, "What the Deputy Envoy said is good, but I have not had contact with my family for many years, and I didn't know what the situation is now. Why not do this? The envoys of Goryeo have not returned in the capital. I asked them to bring a letter to their family and how about replying to the Deputy Envoy when there is a reply?"

“So best.”

Xu Ping nodded and agreed, and brought the glass to continue drinking.

Putting down the wine glass, Uncle Cao Ying said: "When talking about trade with Goryeo, Mizhou officials have always set up a Maritime Department in their place. It is not only convenient to get to Goryeo, but also convenient to take Jingdong Road from south to north. It is better to do it together."

"This matter can also be discussed. It is indeed more convenient to wait until the sugar is sold to Goryeo."

Xu Ping also heard of this proposal, but because there is only Goryeo to the outside world, Japan's trade is greatly restricted and has not been implemented. Mizhou and Goryeo are across the sea, and the wind direction is right, and it can be reached in one or two days. In addition, Jingdong Road is connected to Kaifeng Prefecture, and the water transportation of the South China Sea can be easily transported. Cargoes from Nanyang can be transported along the sea route to Mizhou, and then transferred to Wuzhang River water transportation, which saves time and effort than land transportation on the north in Guangzhou.

Unfortunately, there was no special transportation management department in this era. Although there were shipping cases under the Duzhi Department, it mainly managed several canals connecting the capital canal, and the world's transportation was not within their responsibilities. As for the post roads and delivery pavilions that were spread all over the world, they were mainly managed by military information transfer, official documents, and private letters from officials.

Although Xu Ping is determined to focus on this aspect, it has nothing to do with his salt and iron department for the time being, and he is determined and powerless.

When talking about the sugar business in Yongzhou, several people here were intrigued. They discussed the situation on Yongliang Road at this time with one word. It was a hot spot in this era and there were many news.

At this time, Shi Yannian had already taken office in Liangzhou and assisted the rapid expansion of sugar sugar business to the south. When Xu Ping was there, he had already expanded to Pingxiangdong and Menzhou. After last year, he expanded to Liangzhou. This is why sugar production is expected to increase on a large scale this year, not only the year is good, but also the place is much bigger.

Moreover, with the completion of the road, the sugar sugar service will be expanded to the northern part of Jiaozhi this year, where the local officials have changed from the previous jurisdiction of Shenglong Mansion to the subordinates of Liangzhou.

Fan Feng completely lost the opportunity to stay in the capital and finally went to Yongzhou to take office. The frontier general has a relatively large authority and can become a subordinate. A group of members of the Dongzhou Yi Party who were originally depressed and unsuccessful went thousands of miles to Yongliang Road to follow Fan Feng and Shi Yannian in order to make achievements. These are people who gathered in the mountains and forests every day, rode horses and danced swords, and thought about serving in the frontier. They just had the opportunity to go to the southwest border to show their ambitions to a group of small land barbarians.

Although Yongzhou is not as solid as Xu Ping's time, it is even more lively and lively. Jiaozhi, which was once extremely arrogant, has now become a fat man, and anyone who goes there to become an official can make a fortune.

At the beginning, the officials on Yongliang Road refused to take office, and now they are going to rob. At this time, it is easy to make achievements by increasing civil household registration and increasing money and grain. There is no one around the military and political affairs. It is simply a lot of credit for officials to pick them up everywhere. Moreover, with the increase in the population, the miasma that makes people feel terrified has basically disappeared. The biggest obstacle has been eliminated and it has become a blessing for low-level officials in the Song Dynasty.

When talking about Yongzhou, Xu Ping couldn't help but miss the days at that time. Although he was a little lonely in a distant foreign land, he could follow his own ideas and change the world there and recreate a new world.

When I was in Lingnan, I thought about returning to Beijing every day, and when I returned to Beijing, I missed my life at that time. This is how people are and I will never know how to be satisfied. However, this unsatisfied heart is the motivation to support myself to keep moving forward.

Before I knew it, after drinking a bottle of wine, the aged wine had a strong momentum, and the six people present felt a little drunk.

At this moment, the servant who was guarding the door came in and reported: "Official, a foreigner came outside, saying that he was a Jinshi of Jianchang Army on Jiangxi Road, named Li Rui, who had met the official in Yongzhou."

Li Xu Ping couldn't help but remember the young man who saw him off on the rainy night when he left. Alas, he said he was a young man, but in fact Li Xu was one year older than him. That's right, he was going to take the imperial examination this spring and he should take the Jinshi exam.

"Quick, hurry, invite him in!"

If there weren't so many colleagues sitting next to him, Xu Ping really wanted to go out. To be honest, it's been ten years since he came to this world. Only Li Wei was not because he had made something new, made some achievements, or became a high-ranking official to respect and follow him. He was seriously studying his own governance measures in Yongzhou, what effects these measures brought, how they changed the fate of many people, and was willing to call him a student in front of him.

It is often said that it is enough to know one's life. Xu Ping traveled thousands of years and could meet someone who understands himself in this era. How could he not cherish it?

After a moment, the servant led a young man in.

Li Wei still looked like when he went to Yongzhou to see Xu Ping. He was wearing a half-new green robe, his face was full of dust, and even an old oil-paper umbrella on his back. I don’t know if it was the one he used to be.

When he arrived in front of Xu Ping, Li Wei gave a deep greeting: "Student Li Wei, I have met the county marquis."

Xu Ping stood up, held Li Xu's shoulder and said, "No need to be polite. Come on, come on, I'll introduce you to me. All of them here are my colleagues, please ask more questions."

Among the few people here, Wang Gongchen is the top scorer in the top scorer, Liu Han and Han Qi are both second scorers, Xu Ping himself is also a first-class Jinshi in the fifth year of Tiansheng. Others, Fang Ke, Cao Yingshu and Wang Bin, although the ranking of the imperial examinations is not high, they have been admitted for many years and have been in the sea of ​​officials for more than ten years. Faced with Li Wei, a Jinshi who has not yet passed the imperial examination, they are naturally seniors.
Chapter completed!