Xu Ping took Liu Xiaoyi and a few followers, rode his horse along the Liangjingyi Road and headed east to the Bajiao River, paving across the Bian River, and heading straight towards Wang Su's farm.

Yesterday, the whole family returned to Zhongmu Manor and took Panpan to play wildly for a long time. They went out early this morning to rush to Wangsu Village to attend the gathering of the Jinshi in the fifth year of Tiansheng in the capital.

It has been ten years since I passed the imperial examination. The first echelon of the palace examination was just beginning to emerge. Xu Ping was the leader. Wang Yaochen, Han Qi and Zhao Xu were moving towards intermediate officials. Zhao Gui and Wu Yu also had a position as a magistrate outside the court, Wen Yanbo was still the magistrate, and his good friend Bao Zheng was still raising his parents at home and did not serve as officials.

As for other officials, the better ones in office are mostly just magistrates or officials of the prefecture army, and even the lower ones are still in office.

For ordinary officials who are from Jinshi, this is usually the case. In the first ten years, they are in local prefectures and counties. If they are lucky, they can be appreciated by noble people and be able to enter the museum and be promoted quickly in the next ten years. Without noble people, they can be eager to study and continue to study. They can take the courses and submit documents to recommend themselves to the museum and court. In short, the next ten years are crucial. Those who have laid the foundation and have the ability to learn to handle political affairs. In the next ten years, they will rely on their abilities.

The Pavilion is a very important springboard. Staying here for one or two years is not only a layer of gold. It not only has a status, but also an opportunity to meet important officials in the court and is a ladder to start the political arena. If you have the opportunity to be recruited for the bachelor's academy and fail, it would be really embarrassing to be thrown into my grandma's house, and you may have no chance in your life.

This is the case with Miao Zhen, the fourth Jinshi in the first year of Jingyou. In history, he was recruited for the Bachelor's College. Before the exam, the examiner Yan Shu kindly told him that he had been an official in the local area for so many years, but he was afraid that he would be unfamiliar with his knowledge and asked him to study hard. Miao Zhen was full of confidence and replied that there was no thirty-year-old mother who had been stubborn for the exam. As a result, she failed the exam. She was not only ridiculed, but also unknown.

At the end of this year or the beginning of next year, people like Wen Yanbo will also get the opportunity to recruit the imperial examination hall. The Jinshi in the fifth year of Tiansheng will appear on the political stage in the next few years. Whether you are willing or not, they will be able to rely on important political forces in the same year, especially if you may be in different yamen positions with similar ranks and have natural conditions to help each other.

When I arrived at Wangsu Village, the head of the village who had been waiting outside rushed up and saluted: "I have seen the officials who were waiting for the command. My family and other officials have been waiting in the West Garden."

Xu Ping dismounted his horse and asked the villager from Wangsu Village to lead the stable and followed the supervisor to the west garden.

After all, Wang Su is not like Xu Ping's crop style. He can't appreciate the pastoral scenery. As soon as the affairs in the farm stabilized, he specially built a west garden. Although the area of ​​this garden is not large, it has planted many strange flowers and plants, and even dug a pond. It even puts a rockery made of strange stones transported from the Jianghuai River. This kind of work was something Xu Ping could not have imagined. He built a garden to pursue the big picture, building various scenery and planting various flowers, plants and trees.

When you enter the West Garden, you will see a green bamboo forest. A path covered with bamboo leaves in the forest is extremely elegant. If you don’t walk far away, you will see a pond. The lotus flowers inside are blooming brightly, and there is a small boat in the river flowers.

Wang Su and Han Qi saw Xu Ping coming in from a distance in the pavilion beside the water, and hurriedly came up to meet him.

After seeing the li, Wang Su smiled and said, "Yunxing is a bit late today. Is there something to do in the village to be busy?"

Xu Ping shook his head: "There is nothing business, it's all family affairs. My daughter pestered her and refused to let her go, so she coaxed her for a while."

Han Qi and Wang Su smiled at each other. They were all about the same age and knew that children were the most difficult to deal with at this time.

When we went to the pavilion to set up the seat, Xu Ping said to Wang Su: "This season, there is nothing good. The watermelons and grapes grown in my farm are ripe earlier than other families, so we brought you some here. By the way, yesterday the shopkeeper opened a net to fish and got a few golden carp weighing more than ten pounds, and brought you a pair."

Wang Su bowed and thanked him, and asked the shopkeeper to go with Liu Xiaoyi to receive the gift.

Han Qi smiled and said, "Today Yunxing came to meet guests, and the gifts he brought were all specialties from the village, which really made him feel like a countryman. For example, we have no place to take in Kaifeng Prefecture, and there is no place to bring them."

Xu Ping patted Han Qi on the shoulder: "Zhigui, listen to me, if you have spare money, hurry up and buy some land around the capital. All three of your brothers have passed the Jinshi, and they should be much more abundant than others. After this year, the land prices around Kaifeng Prefecture will definitely rise, and it will be too late to buy it at that time. Buying land and land is much more cost-effective than buying a shop in the capital to collect rent."

Han Qi shook his head: "I have many brothers in my family, and I want to buy land in Xiangzhou. How could I buy Kaifeng Prefecture?"

"How can I compare? If you buy land in Xiangzhou, you can only grow some wheat, millet, beans, etc., which can't be exchanged for much money. If you buy land in Kaifeng Prefecture, there are too many things you can grow. If you are close to the capital, you can easily exchange it for cash."

Wang Su heard something from Xu Ping's words and asked hurriedly: "Is there any other way? Yunxing, we are all our own people. If you have news, you have to tell me first! Now the farm is just growing rice, so it is not easy to exchange for money."

Xu Ping looked at Wang Su and smiled and said, "This time I went back to Zhongmu Zhuangzi. I saw that the large piece of cotton planted in the farm grew very well. To be honest, there is a textile weaving farm in Sansi Farm. Because the loom has been not going well, it has been debugging until now. Everything has been going well. I tried it with the cotton I had originally stored in my farm a few days ago, and it was very useful. By mid-to-late July, the cotton in my farm was harvested and the cotton cloth was on the market in large quantities. You will know that this is amazing."

Wang Su looked at Han Qi, turned her head to look at Xu Ping, and asked in a low voice: "How great is it? The cotton cloth in the capital is a little more expensive than satin, and not many people can afford it. How much can Sansi press the price?"

"Same as sackcloth."

After hearing Xu Ping say this indifferently, Wang Su and Han Qi both took a breath.

It is really scary to press cotton to the price of linen. Because it is rare, cotton is more expensive than silk and still has a shortage of supply. Once the price is the same as linen, it is not bad! The market that can eat some silk upwards, and the market that can eat most of the ramie downwards, and the entire fabric market will be earth-shaking.

After thinking for a while, Wang Su asked, "You have kept the price so low, and that kind of cotton still has profits to make?"

Xu Ping smiled slightly: "Anyway, it seems that the profit of one acre of cotton is equivalent to two acres of rice. What do you think?"

The cotton in Zhongmu Zhuangzi was a variety of Xu Ping's previous life. It has undergone countless improvements. The fibers are much longer than existing cotton and are stronger, suitable for machine textiles. The original cotton varieties in Asia are short and thin, and are much more difficult to weave, and it is also difficult to use large machines.

Once the continuous textile threads in Sansi are opened, they will occupy most of the textile market like monsters. The only trouble is the supply of cotton. This depends on Wang Gongchen to open the field business. Sansi has to provide most of the raw materials themselves, and cannot be tied up by a private cotton farm.

Growing rice and wheat millet is only part of the farm, which is to turn over cotton and prevent the yield from falling. To really make a large scale, we still have to rely on economic crops such as cotton, which can also connect with Sansi’s farms and shops.

Wang Su remained silent for a moment. After a while, he raised his head and asked Xu Ping with a trembling trembling: "Yunxing, are you saying nothing? If you really have such a big profit, I will expand the village even if I borrow money!"

"One acre of cotton is equivalent to two acres of rice. This is my own loss and I lowered the price. When the cotton cloth is sold, it may not be able to collect cotton at this price. If you can't receive the goods, Sanshi can't force others to sell it, right?"

Xu Ping's pricing is directly towards defeating the rami cloth market, which is naturally low. In fact, it is likely to increase prices with the market. As for rami cloth, the largest production area is in Yongzhou, where this kind of commodity is no longer needed. The rami cloth market has been destroyed, and it just takes the place for the larger and larger sugar business. With more sugar produced by the sugar business, it is naturally time to expand the market overseas. Pang Ji is already making the idea of ​​Nanyang Commercial Road.

Wang Su has seen the rice planted in the village these days. The rice planted in the country is growing well. She has just tasted the sweetness and is in high spirits. Unexpectedly, Xu Ping brings such news again today, which makes him hesitate for a moment.

The farmland can bring surprises to the owners when harvesting farmland, but the initial investment is really not small. After spending money on it for half a year, Wang Su's family business is a bit unbearable. But Xu Ping's own farmhouse example is there, and now is the best time to start. The land price in Kaifeng Prefecture has not yet risen. If you miss this opportunity, you will be afraid that you will regret it in the future.

After thinking for a long time, Wang Su gritted his teeth and said, "Okay, I will go to Yunxing's farm tomorrow or the day after tomorrow to see the growth of cotton. If the land is really profitable, then when I harvest the crops in the field after autumn, I will buy some more land!"

At this time, the benefits of having too many relatives were revealed. The prime ministers and Privy Councilors in the court, including Hanlin scholars and Censors, were all Wang Su's close relatives. They could move out any activities, and even if they could ensure that they could earn back the money in the coming year, the transaction would be absolutely worth doing.

Han Qi made up his mind not to buy industries in the capital and devoted himself to managing his hometown in Xiangzhou. Anyway, there are only two options for officials to buy property, either around the two capitals, or his hometown, and there is no special reason in other places. Who knows which day he has the opportunity to be transferred to an official position? There are industries everywhere that are difficult for the Judicial Officer.

Xu Ping made up his mind to use a large farm to destroy the small peasant economy in the north, so he may make less profits by promoting these crops, and he must continue to do it firmly.
Chapter completed!