After touching his parents' background, Xu Ping became clear and knew how to talk to Sansi.

On the third day after arriving in the capital, someone from Sansi came to inform Xu Ping to go to the Sansi Yamen to discuss things.

Xu Ping is a person who has the skills of making sugar. Only Sansi asks him, but there is no reason for him to ask Sansi. He just refuses and calls him twice or three times. Xu Ping even says that he is in poor health, but he just doesn't go to Sansi.

On the tenth day, the people from Sansi finally couldn't hold it in and came directly to Xu Ping's house.

When Xu Ping heard that the Sansi came, he hurriedly asked Dou'er to make some ginger water for him and apply it on his face, and then Zhang Sanniang helped him to the living room.

Several soldiers and officials stood outside the door. On the main seat of the living room was a middle-aged official with a slightly dark face, with a medium figure and a heavy face.

Xu Ping was not familiar with the official system of this era, and he could not tell what the official was. However, it seemed that he was a person who could speak in the Three Divisions and hurriedly came up to greet him.

The official looked at Xu Ping carefully and said in a deep voice: "You are Xu Ping?"

Seeing that his face was not good, Xu Ping did not dare to be arrogant and replied carefully: "The youngest one is Xu Ping. Since he arrived in the capital, he has been infected with the cold and has not improved. He has not visited the officials. I hope he will forgive him for his crime!"

The official waved his hand, not entangled with these things, and introduced himself: "This official Li Zi, is the current envoy of the Three Divisions. He is here today and discuss some things with you."

Xu Ping was surprised. Unexpectedly, the Three Sessions envoys would come forward to discuss directly. He was finally killed by a small official. You should know that although the Three Sessions envoys were considered to be much worse than the ruling and the prime minister, they were not much different from the General Secretary and the Deputy Envoy of the Privy Councilor. They were one of the most core officials of the Song Dynasty.

Xu Ping hurriedly stepped forward to greet him again. Xu Zheng and Zhang Sanniang, who were sitting by the side, were also startled and stood up tremblingly.

"I believe you already know the purpose of my visit today. It is to take over the sugar business to the official business." Speaking of this, Li Zi sighed, "These things were originally to be handled by the deputy envoy of salt and iron and judges, but now they are all in vain, so I have to come."

Xu Ping did not dare to respond. He also heard about this matter. The court asked Sun Shi and Xia Shu, the Zhizhizhi, to discuss the tea law first, and abolished the archery method formulated by Li Zi. After the tea law was abolished, the court held the responsibility again. As the leaders of the direct competent department, the deputy envoy of the Salt and Iron and the judge of the Salt and Iron were all demoted to the Shamen Island. Some of the specific responsible public officials were even exiled to Shamen Island, and the punishment for the relevant personnel of the Third Division was quite harsh. Even the Third Division envoy Li Zi himself was impeached and would be beaten at some point. He was so active in white sugar, but he was afraid that he would have the intention to atone for his merits and let the tea law storm pass as soon as possible.

The Three Divisions are collectively known as the three departments of the Ministry of Revenue. The Three Divisions and the Deputy Commissioner General, and each department has a Deputy Commissioner and a Judge as the supervisor. The Three Divisions and the General Officer are the Chief Officer. The Third Division is the General Officer, and each department is the Chief Officer. The Chief Officer no longer has a Chief Officer, and the Deputy Commissioner is the Chief Officer. The monopoly of various items is basically the Ministry of Salt and Iron. If there is any problem with the Tea Law, they will be held accountable first. At this time, the old official has been dismissed, but the new official has not yet taken office.

For Chen Cha, Xu Ping accidentally got involved in the whirlpool of tea. After hearing Li Zi's words, he didn't dare to sweep his tiger beard, so he had to say carefully: "If you have anything, please give me the order."

Li Zi had a calm face and tapped his fingers rhythmically on the table, but he didn't speak for a long time.

After a long time, Li Zicai said: "Bai Sugar is special. I have made up my mind and reported it to the court. No one has opposed it. I just asked me to take it into consideration. Let's just say it. Now that the country is difficult to use, it must be received by the subordinates of the Three Divisions. What do you have to say?"

Xu Zheng looked at Xu Ping and took two steps back silently. Since the last incident, Xu Zheng has decided to leave everything he dealt with the government to his son, and he would not worry about it if he was not anxious.

Xu Ping took a step forward, thought for a while, and said to Li Zi: "We are all doing business legally. The court will collect it if it says it. We must give us some compensation, right?"

Li Zi said lightly: "What compensation do you want?"

Without waiting for Xu Ping to answer, Li Zi added: "I will say it to you if you are partnering with you. You don't have to pay attention, just say your own words."

This was a huge price. Xu Ping thought about it carefully before answering: "Not talking about that sugar shop, I only know how to make sugar. It's useless for the imperial court to collect the shop."

"Of course I know, otherwise why would I come to you for?" Li Zi said expressionlessly, "Just say, how can I deliver the sugar recipe?"

Xu Ping knew that it would be boring to talk nonsense, so he asked directly: "I have never thought of giving it out. It turns out that I just want to rely on this recipe to enjoy a lifetime of wealth. My husband should know that the sugar shop earns a lot of money in a year, which is enough for our family to be rich for a lifetime. Without our wealth path, I wonder what the court should use as compensation?"

"What do you want?" Li Zi's face was dull and there was no turmoil.

Xu Ping was not deceived, but just asked: "What the court is willing to give us, why don't you say it out and let us consider it carefully."

Li Zi sneered: "Thinking? What do you want to consider? I came to ask, it is already a great grace. As long as your request is not too excessive, I will try my best to satisfy it. If I am insatiable, I will naturally find another way. Sansi will not just buy this path from you."

This is a bit of a naked threat. But this is also the truth. The Sansi Yamen has taken charge of most of the affairs of the court, especially those related to money. There are endless ways to deal with a merchant like the Xu family. You can't get a penny, and you can give the prescriptions to me while crying and shouting. Of course, for the sake of the face of the court and for the sake of his reputation, Li Zi hoped that Xu Ping would offer it himself, but he could not speak out. In fact, there were many people who took the initiative to offer such secret recipes to the court over the years. The method of offering stones to the Zhenzong Dynasty failed. In recent years, some people in Jiangnan offered copper soaking to the court was successful. They used iron sheets to replace copper from the copper sulfate solution, which increased the copper production a lot. The family was sealed from the official who was in charge of the copper mine, and it was not long before.

In fact, there is one thing that Li Zi can't explain clearly. Since he proposed Bai Sugar's special proposal, although no one in the court dared to object, there were still some small episodes. The political affairs officer Lu Yijian of the magistrate hinted to Li Zi in an extremely hidden way, and reminded him of Li Yonghe's identity. No one dared to verify such a thing, but Li Zi could not take it as if he didn't know it, so he took the initiative to go to the Xu family. If it weren't for this relationship, how could Xu Ping pretend to be sick and not go to the Sansi Yamen? Li Zi sent two public officials to slap him.

Xu Ping carefully looked at the price that Sansi could give, and understood in his heart that it was best not to ask for money directly, but to try to exchange it for other things that Sansi felt not embarrassed.

Looking at Li Zi, Xu Ping said carefully: "We have a restaurant in Baisha Town. The wine we brew is famous even in the capital, but because we cannot sell wine in the capital-"

Li Zi looked at Xu Ping and smiled slightly: "After the sugar is special, your family is allowed to sell wine in the capital, with a daily limit of one thousand liters. Except for the qu money, there will be no additional taxes!"

Since they knew that the Xu family opened a restaurant, Li Zi calculated that they would propose this and had prepared preferential conditions long ago. In fact, the Qu money was accepted and allowed the Xu family to sell wine in the capital. The only violation of the interests of other wine households in the capital was that the court did not pay any price.

Seeing that the answer was pleasant, Xu Ping hurriedly increased his efforts: "Our family has another farm in Zhongmu. It turned out that they were all wastelands where horses were herding horses in Chunze. It was difficult to reclaim. In two years, we would collect money and food--"

"I'll be more generous than the 20-year tax on your farm. From now on, I'll set aside two thousand hectares of horse herdsland in Qijiyuan for you. As long as you cultivate it properly, you can get 20 years of money and food together! Is there any?"

"It's gone, it's gone!"

Xu Ping was overjoyed. He didn't expect that Li Zi was so interested. His farm could be expanded several times. He had no taxes for twenty years, which really caught up with the profits of the sugar shop.

In fact, for Li Zi, the land in Chunze Supervisory has not been sold for several years. It is so wasteful that it is still there. It takes Sanshi to pay the cost to recruit people to reclaim people. It doesn’t matter at all. I don’t know how much wasteland there is on Jingxi Road and Kaifeng Prefecture in Sanshi’s hands. They are so deserted that they are willing to give it to people for free.

Seeing that Xu Ping was still quite aware of the current affairs, Li Zi's expression also calmed down and said to Xu Ping: "Since you have agreed, then you can take care of yourself for two days and go to the Sansi Yamen to pass on the method of making sugar."

Xu Ping was about to agree, but when he turned around, he saw his father Xu Zheng's expression was a little sad. He knew that he was still reluctant to leave this business. He moved his heart and said to Li Zi: "My husband, what he said just now is good for our family, and in fact, there is no need for the court to pay anything. If you offer secret recipes to the court, don't the court still reward the officials? I wonder if we have one at home?"

Li Zi looked at Xu Ping and asked, "Why, do you still want an official position? This is not difficult, but you are still young, less than twenty years old, but you are less than the age of quotation."

At this time, the promotion of officials is mainly based on investigation. Except for special circumstances, officials are generally required to start from the age of 20, that is, they can only become officials in an official position after they become adults. Xu Ping was still a few years away.

After hearing Li Zi's words, Xu Ping hurriedly said, "My husband misunderstood. I asked for an official position for my father. He worked hard all his life. The court collected a sugar shop. My father had nothing to do. If there was an official position on him, it would be easier to maintain his old age. As for the sake of the emperor, if he wanted to be an official, he would naturally be able to pass the imperial examination and pass the imperial examination, so there was no need to do this."

After hearing this, Li Zi turned around and looked at Xu Zheng, thought for a while before nodding, "Okay. But I can tell you this first, and I can proclaim you. As for what real position I want to take, I can't care. It depends on your own luck. How about it?"

Xu Ping nodded quickly and said yes.
Chapter completed!