As soon as we entered May, the rain kept falling, the sky seemed to leak, and there was no time to see the sun.

In Taiping County, the main roads are paved with stones, the drainage ditches on both sides of the road are neat and unimpeded, and the rain has been falling, but the road surface is still refreshing.

With the end of the First World War, there were many more people in this small county. Not to mention the large family of Li Foma and his family who were held here as prisoners, as well as those loyal ministers under him, there were tens of thousands of elite soldiers from the prisoners of Jiaozhi alone.

These people were all scattered and assigned to the cane sugar business, and each commander was assigned dozens of people to be strictly guarded. The wages they paid for the first year of their work were all paid as usual, but they did not reach them, but as the common money of the group of people who took care of them, and they usually had a dinner and ate wine and meat. If you perform well this year and the whole team unanimously passes, you can become a probationary member of the cane sugar business, and the salary will be half of the salary, and after three years without any offense, you can become a regular member of the cane sugar business and receive the salary like others.

According to Xu Ping's estimate, if everything is normal, Jiaozhi may become a county of the Great Song Dynasty within ten years, and even a large part of the sugar cane business will be moved there, and there is no need to form a life-and-death grudge with these captives. Maybe one day, these people will also become the relying force of the Great Song Dynasty to rule Jiaozhi.

In addition to these Jiaozhi people, there are also the Xiangjun who take care of them, and there are still more than 3,000 people concentrated in this small county town, plus the businessmen who rushed to hear the wind, Taiping County suddenly became much more lively.

After returning from Jiaozhi, the money in the hands of the cane sugar service was abundant at once, and all kinds of rewards were generously distributed, and the money bags up and down were bulging for a while. If you have money, how can you hold back it? Even with the recent rains, the market is still full of people, and all kinds of businesses are booming.

Xu Ping handled various matters. He packed his bags early, waited for the official documents in Beijing and his successor officials to arrive, and returned to the capital after the handover.

On the seventh day of the fifth month, just after the Dragon Boat Festival, the people from Beijing finally arrived.

I took the official document and read it, and saw that it was full of reprimands. Especially in the end, Xu Ping was already full of anger.

Although Xu Ping was only asked to wait for the order, and there was no punishment, it was not to return to Beijing to wait for the order, not even to wait for the order in the same place, and even more outrageous was not to wait for the order on Guangnan West Road, but to go to Daozhou on Jinghu South Road, and the meaning of this was self-evident.

As the governor of a state in the frontier, Xu Ping held military and political power at this time. In particular, it is not an exaggeration to break Guangyuan Prefecture and pacify Langzhou, which is not an exaggeration to describe it with a sentence of soldiers. First of all, he was transferred out of the local area to avoid accidents, or to put it bluntly, he was afraid that Xu Ping would not want to rebel and then be punished, which is really ridiculous. When this decree was made, Asari didn't know that Xu Ping had even broken through the Shenglong Mansion. The king of Jiaozhi, Li Foma, has become a prisoner of his subordinates, otherwise it is estimated that there will be more small actions that cannot be put on the stage.

There was silence for a while. forcibly calmed down, and Xu Ping greeted the successor official.

Pang Ji, the former judge of Kaifeng Prefecture, took over the promotion of sugar and the promotion of Zuojiang Daoxi. Yu Jing, the former magistrate of Xinjian County in Hongzhou, took over as the military envoy of the Taiping Army and the governor of Taiping County.

Pang Ji is the eighth year of Dazhong Xiangfu Jinshi, and the second year of Yu Jingtiansheng. The seniority is much deeper than Xu Ping's, and their coming to take over also shows that Xu Ping's status in this place has risen in the past few years in office.

Xu Ping looked at Pang Ji, who was in his forties, thin and capable. He had black hair on his forehead, wrinkles on his face, and a serious face.

This is the Pang Taishi I saw in Bao Gong's drama in his previous life, and Xu Ping had a weird feeling when he looked at him. Fortunately, Xu Ping also liked to read miscellaneous books in his previous life, and knew that the Pang book in real history and the huge master in the drama were just the same name, and their people and things were completely different.

But none of this is important, the important thing is that Xu Ping knows who Pang Ji is, and his benefactor is the current privy deputy envoy Xia Zhu. When Xu Ping was still farming in the Zhongmu countryside, he had seen Pang Ji, and even helped Pang Ji, who was then the magistrate of Xiangyi County, to manage the rice fields in the county. At that time, Xu Ping was still a civilian, and Guan didn't know these doorways in the officialdom, but now that he has been an official for many years, he is no longer the innocent teenager.

Pang's rank is not high, and he first appointed the manager of Huangzhou to join the army, and he only selected people at a low level, which is far worse than Xu Ping's junior rank official as a supervisor. During his tenure in Huangzhou, Pang Ji showed a strong cadre, which was deeply appreciated by Xia Zhu, who was the governor of Huangzhou at the time, and most of his subsequent promotions were related to Xia Zhu.

It was the Privy Council that advocated the removal of Xu Ping, which Xu Ping had already known from the newspaper. removed Xu Ping and sent one of his cronies to come over to grab the credit, this Xia Zhu made a good calculation.

As for Yu Jing, there is nothing, the Jinshi of the second year of Tiansheng, ten years have passed before he became the magistrate, and he is a person with no big backers. To get this position, firstly, the qualifications are really enough, and secondly, he has a good political performance, and he is a Lingnan native, and there is no one more suitable than him.

The three of them saw the ceremony, Xu Ping looked Pang Ji up and down, and said in a deep voice: "Mellow, since Kaifeng, we haven't seen each other for many years." ”

At this time, Xu Ping was promoted by special purpose, and the official was already above Pang's nationality, and only his ministry was removed, and the official had not changed, and he could have an equal dialogue with Pang's nationality.

Pang has been an official for many years, and he is rolling in the sea, how can he not know what Xu Ping is thinking? But he himself is now just a small chess piece in the hands of others, where can he make his own decisions.

Sighing, Pang Ji said: "If I can choose by myself, I really don't want to meet Yun Xing at this time." Back then, in Kaifeng, you were still a country boy, and I was just the head of a county. In less than ten years, you have become a feudal official of the imperial court, opening up hundreds of miles of land, and destroying people and a country with the soldiers of a state. Since my ancestors, how many people in my Great Song Dynasty have such achievements in the past few decades? Yun Xing, listen to me, even if there is a moment of frustration, you don't need to be discouraged, there will always be a time when you soar into the sky in the Great Song Dynasty! ”

Xu Ping was noncommittal: "I hope so, Chengjun Jiyan." ”

The two said that Yu Jing came up to greet him. Although he was one year earlier than Xu Ping, his official was already quite far away, and he could only meet as a subordinate.

The three of them had met, Xu Ping turned his head to look at a chamberlain standing on the other side, and asked, "I don't know what the pavilion chief is called?" Could it be that there is any other will of the emperor? ”

The chamberlain was about fifty years old, looked at Xu Ping, raised his eyebrows, and raised his head: "You are a Quan Zhizhou, you are not a regular officer, but your eyelids are very high, do you think of our family at this time?" I am the imperial medicine to worship Ren Shouzhong, because you are lawless in Yongzhou, and you have repeatedly disobeyed the command of the court, the queen mother's decree, let me urge you, go to Daozhou as soon as possible to wait for the decree! ”

Xu Ping looked at Ren Shouzhong, and his eyes couldn't help but turn cold.

In the last few years of Empress Dowager Liu's reign, the inner servants in the name of the above imperial medicine and the imperial medicine were enshrined, and by the will of the Empress Dowager, they communicated inside and outside, and their power was overwhelming. I didn't expect that I was leaving, and I would be able to enjoy this kind of treatment. (To be continued.) )