"Husband's appearance, I'm afraid I won't be able to have a good time in the next few days!"

In the Five Lakes Garden, washing and changing clothes and eating, Chen Xu, Shui Qingrou and others sat on the balcony on the third floor of the hotel, chatting and resting while watching the two big beads obtained today.

"That's true, but even if we don't publicize it, the news of Guangling will reach Wuzhong in two or three days at most, not to mention that I have been to Wuzhong at the beginning, and there has been a huge conflict with the Xiang family that everyone in Wuzhong knows, even if there is no news from Guangling, I am afraid that it will be recognized soon, and those businessmen should have guessed our identity at the beginning, that's it, stay in Wuzhong for two days, there are some things I have to arrange properly, and then we will go to Hangzhou to inspect the silk factory, and at the same time visit the West Lake and Huiji Mountain, When Brother Yu and Miss Xia arrived, we went to the coastal port to take a boat to play, thinking that the second brother should have arrived with the fleet......"

"Wow, I'm finally going to the beach, I haven't been there yet, I want to eat the iron plate squid that Brother Xiao Xu said!" Yu Ji jumped up happily.

"I want to eat steamed scallops with garlic vermicelli!" Ying Shiyan is also full of yearning.

"Daddy, Xi'er wants to eat kelp~" Chen Xi shouted softly.

"Haha, okay, Daddy went to the beach and let people catch seafood for you to eat!" Chen Xu laughed heartily.

"Husband, it stands to reason that Senior Brother and Sister Xia should go to Qinghe Town to catch up with us in May, why is there no news so far?" Shui asked softly, slightly worriedly.

"Don't worry, Brother Yu and Miss Xia are both strong in martial arts, and they also have pistols for self-defense, and they are still going back to Miss Xia's division, I don't think there will be any danger in the future, maybe I was just delayed by something, so good teeth, I can just accompany Shi Yan and Wan'er Xi'er to play for a few more days, and as soon as Brother Yu arrives, we will set off for Fujian by sea!" Chen Xu comforted.

"I'm just afraid that Sister Xia will secretly marry her senior brother and give birth to a nephew of Hailong, and this time I will return to the master for fear of being punished or grounded by the teacher!" The water whispered softly.

"Then there is no way!" Chen Xu smiled bitterly and shook his head.

Although they are all Taoist sons and daughters who seek immortals and ask questions, it is unreasonable not to tell their relatives and teachers to secretly get married and have children, this kind of raw rice and cooked rice will not be particularly happy at any time, and I heard that Xia Zijin's Luo Shengtang, who worships Shao Si's order, is all women and has strange rules, Yu Wuya is afraid that he will not be killed.

Chen Xu was also a little worried, for fear that Yu Wuya would be besieged by a group of martial arts masters from Luo Shengtang, and then Yu Wuya took out his pistol in a hurry......

What's more, it's not impossible for Yu Wuya, a second goods.

The more Chen Xu thought about it, the more he felt melancholy, so he lost his interest in chatting with his wife and daughter in an instant.

Because if it weren't for Yu Wuya, who was the most reassuring to him and was also familiar with the overseas situation, to train 2,000 soldiers in Taiwan, the future might be beyond his control.

And even if Yu Wuya doesn't have any, if he drags it out for three or five months, I'm afraid that all the things he has already arranged will be dragged out in a mess.

It seems that it is necessary to make a plan in advance that Yu Wuya will not be able to arrive in Wuzhong in time.

Chen Xu stood up and left the balcony on the third floor, went out with a few guards, and came to a salt shop after many turns in Wuzhong City.

Compared with five years ago, the salt shop in front of me is much larger, and the façade and decoration are much more luxurious and heroic.

Chen Xu withdrew his eyes from the plaque and stepped into the salt shop.

There is still a strong salty smell on the face, which is the smell of the sea.

Because Wuzhong is close to the sea, drying salt by the sea is the most important traditional and pillar industry, and Haiyan County is not far from here, and the supply of sea salt produced is almost half of the Great Qin Empire.

With the prosperity and stability of the population of Daqin, the population has been in a state of rapid expansion, and in recent years, the income of the common people has increased, and the situation of not being able to afford salt in the past is gone, so the people's demand for salt has been greatly enhanced, and the cheapest sea salt with the largest output is the main source of demand, so the salt industry on the southeast coast has been extremely developed in recent years, and the trading and trading of sea salt has presented an extremely hot scene.

In order to deal with Xiang's family, Chen Xu secretly arranged for Shang Qi to disguise himself as a salt merchant to collude with Xiang and others in Wuzhong, but now Xiang's has disappeared, Shang Qi has been staying in Wuzhong to continue selling salt, and Song Yan, a big salt merchant, has almost handed over the affairs of Wuzhong to Shang Qi to deal with, so in the past few years, a dilapidated small façade has now become a huge trading house.

Shang Qi is just a bastard, and he is not very good at doing business at all, but he can make the business so big in a few years, which shows that the profit of salt is quite high.

"This Lang Jun wants to buy salt?"

It was very quiet inside, and there was no helper in sight, only a half-pulled old man wearing a long shirt and a servant scarf on his head was crackling and calculating accounts in the tall counter in front of him.

"May I ask Shang Qi is here?" Chen Xu asked casually while looking at the salt jars and sacks placed around.

The old man looked up in amazement, and saw clearly that the young man in front of him was dressed in a brocade robe and had an extraordinary bearing, especially a mouthful, and he was accompanied by two guards with tigers and bears and long swords on their waists, so he quickly stopped the movements in his hands and walked out and saluted: "Son, forgive me, the business director has something to go out, if you want to buy salt and talk to the old man, I will definitely give you the best price......

"Did Shang Qi go to the sugar factory?" Chen Xu directly interrupted the old man's words.

The old man was even more stunned, and hurriedly and cautiously saluted again and said: "It turns out that the prince is here for the sugar, yes, the merchant director went to the sugar factory, if you want to see him, the old man arranged for someone to find him back!" ”

"Don't use it, just take us to the sugar factory!" Chen Xu waved his hand.

"Yes, Childe, wait a minute, the old man will arrange it!" The old man didn't dare to refuse Chen Xu, and soon after turning around and walking into the inner hall, a young woman wearing a cloth skirt and holding a child came out to take care of the shop.

"Does Childe have a carriage or a horse?" After walking out of the salt shop, the old man asked carefully.

"We're all on horseback, just lead the way!" The guards brought the black horse, and several guards and musketeers with rifles on their backs also turned over their horses, and the old man did not dare to ask more, so he arranged for two servants to go to the backyard to drive the carriage out, and then got into the front of the carriage to lead the way.

Since last year, a group of artisan students from the Academy of Sciences and the College of Agriculture were arranged to come to Wuzhong to plant sugarcane and develop sugarcane, because Shang Qi was familiar with the situation in Wuzhong, so he wrote a letter to tell Shang Qi to make proper arrangements, but Chen Xu did not arrange anyone to ask for more than a year.

First, Wuzhong is too far away to come and go, which is very inconvenient.

Second, the sugarcane growth period is relatively long, at least it takes more than a year, otherwise the sugar powder is not enough and the sugar yield is low.

Sugarcane and millet (sorghum) in the five grains belong to the same genus, herbaceous, can be regarded as an enlarged version of the weed, only suitable for cultivation in the tropics and temperate zones, it is said to be native to India, but in fact in the south of China has a history of hundreds of years of cultivation, the source of introduction is the Yue people in Lingnan, and the Indochina Peninsula is adjacent to India, this statement is estimated to be more reliable.

However, Chen Xu has no interest in the ancestral home of sugarcane, only knowing that this thing can not only be used as a fruit to eat, but also the best sugar crop, and with sugar, there is a so-called sweet and rich life.

The most important thing is that with sugar, the brewing industry can get greater development, whether it is medicine, lighting, or living supplies will be more satisfied, at present, it is too wasteful to rely on grain to make wine, Daqin's current grain is only enough to meet the people's food and clothing, far from being rich, once the folk liquor license is released, I am afraid that a large amount of grain will be purchased by businessmen to make wine, and the people's grain reserves will be greatly weakened, and the ability to resist famine will become extremely fragile.

Therefore, although the liquor Chen Xu has long been successfully brewed, the law of grain brewing has not been loosened.

At present, there is only one Dushi Distillery in Xianyang that can brew high-purity liquor, and the output is limited, only three or five tons per year, which is specially used by the Imperial Palace and Chen Xu and a group of princes and princes to soak wine, and then there is only one hotel in Xianyang that can drink liquor, called Baxian Lou, in fact, it is still opened by Chen Xu and Dushi Distillery, and the daily supply is limited to ten catties, and the one to drink is booked early, and it is gone if it is lateIt is an extremely scarce commodity with a serious shortage of supply and demand, and the price is also very high, and ordinary people can't afford to drink it at all.

From the beginning of autumn last year to the beginning of autumn this year, a year has passed, and the sugarcane planted is probably also the harvest season.

However, the climate of Daqin is warm and humid at present, and the temperature in Wuzhong is much hotter than that estimated in later generations.

Follow the old man's carriage all the way out of the city to the southeast, after going out of the city, there are mulberry fields and lakes and ponds everywhere, the eyes are still green and verdant lotus leaves, a group of Jiangnan scenery and Guanzhong are completely different, a group of people go to the river and cross the bridge after seven or eight miles, a weedy road on both sides of the road began to be able to see a piece of sugarcane forest, these sugarcane are planted indiscriminately, neither ditched nor raised, sparse like a bamboo forest, the old leaves have not been skimmed, so it looks messy, during which the weeds make Chen Xu's face twitch.

Sure enough, it is still a group of primitive people, and the habit of slash-and-burn cultivation is difficult to change.

"Yu~~"

The rickety carriage in front of it slowly stopped, and the old man got down from the car and arched his hand and said: "This son, walking through this sugarcane field is a sugar factory, but the county guard has an order, you can't get close to the sugar factory without a pass, and the old man can only send you here!" ”

"Well, thank you, uncle, this money can be used to buy some wine to quench your thirst!"

Chen Xu rode on the horse and nodded, took out two purple Tai Chi Tongbao and handed them to the old man, then gently clamped the horse's belly, and walked along the path under the escort of a group of guards, and soon the group disappeared into the sugarcane forest.

"Wow, this son is so generous!" The two servants looked at the coin in the old man's hand with excitement and exclaimed.

"This son is only afraid of an extraordinary background......"

The old man looked at the two coins in his hand over and over again, muttered a word, and then turned around happily and got into the carriage and urged him to hurry back.