The soldiers were quickly settled, and Zhang Yue repeatedly told the officers to take their soldiers and not to cause trouble. This is in the Tibetan village, the Tibetan people have a strong temperament, and these people who maintain the tribal system are very united, and if something happens, it will be trouble.

Although Li Wanjin is the patriarch, it is similar to a rural old wealth, the residence is a house that occupies a large area, the outside looks dilapidated, but the inside is actually richly decorated, and the furniture and furnishings are similar to the Han people, and there is no Hu style to see.

Before the banquet began, Li Wanjin ordered his servants to serve tea, snacks, fruits and pastries. These foods look very good, and the tea is milk tea, which is cheese boiled and sprinkled with a little tea leaves, which has a different flavor.

The fruits are mostly dried fruits, boiled chestnuts, mixed with some fine white grains, which should be salt, and sugar is only available in the south, but it is very expensive to come to the north, and most people cannot afford it. There are also persimmons, jujubes or something, and the red color is very good-looking. However, there is really sugar in the jujube, it is brown sugar, which should be boiled from sugarcane, so Zhang Yue also paid attention.

Li Wanjin was very enthusiastic, and repeatedly raised the teacup to invite everyone to drink milk tea, but Xuan Chongwen and Li Chuyun were obviously not interested in milk tea, Zhang Yue drank a few sips, the smell was very big, and the tea could not cover up the harmony if it was less, mainly because the tea was transported from Shu, which was also very expensive.

Preserved fruit or something, Zhang Yue tried everything, but the taste was not very good. However, when Li Wanjin saw that he was willing to eat, he suddenly felt very face-saving, and his attitude was more enthusiastic, and he asked the servant to bring up a few kinds of preserved fruits.

Is that...... Sun-dried apples! Zhang Yue's eyes widened suddenly, this is really a nowhere to find it, there is finally news. Zhang Yue couldn't wait to pick up a dried apple and looked at it in his hand, it was much smaller than what he was common in later generations, and he didn't know if it was because it had shrunk in the sun, or if it was already small. This thing is recorded in historical records during the two Jin and Northern Dynasties, and it is only produced in the area of Guanbei and Hexi, and the output is very small, and only the nobles can eat it.

"Excuse me, Patriarch Li! What is this fruit called? Because Zhang Yue began to talk about apples, Xuan Chongwen didn't know what it was, in short, it wasn't called an apple these days.

"This is called dry persimmon, if the newly picked ones are ripe, they are called Zhu persimmons, green persimmons, also called persimmons, sand fruits, and Pinpo fruits! We have a few persimmon trees in our village. Li Wanjin said happily.

"It's so nice that I don't have to look for this thing everywhere! I don't know Patriarch Li, do you have cotton here? Xuan Chongwen laughed and asked about the whereabouts of these things, and his task was completed, anyway, he didn't know what to do, so let Zhang Yue get it himself.

"Cotton? It's kapok! I don't have it in the village, but I know that the cow-killing patriarch Li Quanfu has planted a lot of them in the back garden of his house, and his wives and concubines are used for ornamentation, which is useless. Li Wanjin said disapprehantly.

"Is the patriarch of the cattle killing called Li Quanfu, how far is it from your cottage?" Zhang Yue asked again.

"Not far! Walk more than ten miles north along the river outside the mountain, live in the mountain depression, the road is the road stepped out by the merchants, it is not easy to walk! Li Wanjin looked puzzled, he was at odds with the Cattle Killers, and Zhang Yue was a little unhappy when he talked about the Cattle Killers.

Zhang Yue saw it, and inadvertently smiled and opened the topic and said, "Patriarch Li! You haven't had a good banquet yet, why don't you take me to see the persimmon tree in your village? ”

"If you want saplings, I can send you a few, they were cultivated last year, and now it's March, and it's too late if you don't plant saplings!" Li Wanjin was not stupid, seeing that Zhang Yue was very interested, he immediately said flatteringly.

"Good! Thank you, Patriarch Lee! Let's check it out! Zhang Yue laughed and patted Li Wanjin on the shoulder, and strode out of the house.

Li Wanjin was a little flattered and ran forward to lead the way with a smile, and when he arrived at a valley behind the cottage, there were many fruit trees planted on the gentle hills, including pears, peaches, dates, and apricots, which were mixed together in a mess, and they were not well planned to separate.

There are about seven or eight apple trees alone under the hills, and some of them are more than two feet high, and they are like umbrella covers, and they are just growing bright green branches and leaves at this time, and they bloom in April and May, and bear fruit in autumn and winter.

"There are a lot of fruit seedlings, and many of them are not fruitful when they grow up, and I don't know why. Pick an auspicious day for the inspection and send someone to dig up the saplings! Li Wanjin pointed to the saplings in the field on the other side and said.

This is to be pruned and grafted, and what auspicious day to pick, Zhang Yue is a little funny, but he is too lazy to explain, when the time comes, it is not a dream to move back to Yanzhou to pick seeds and cultivate, develop a patch of orchards, and even make new varieties.

That's right! The brown sugar in the jujube just now, I have to let Han Shengnan go on the next trip as soon as possible to see if he can pick a large number of seeds in Yuezhou and build a sugar workshop, and the brown sugar will be produced in batches, which can be sold better than salt.

In the afternoon of the same day, Zhang Yue said goodbye and asked Xuan Chongwen to personally return to Gyeongju with the apple sapling, and forced him to temporarily plant in a cool place, but also to have sunshine, and to water on time, which made Xuan Chongwen look inexplicable, crying and laughing. I commanded the envoy and asked me to take care of the flowers and trees.

Next, Zhang Yue visited the cattle killing clan again, obtained three pots of cotton seedlings, and sent them back to Gyeongju as a treasure and handed them over to Xuan Chongwen to take care of. Then go north to the Baima River, turn west to Huanxian and go south, visit and pacify the Mubo Village, Baijiabao and other Tibetan tribes, and then go south along the Malyeongshui River Valley and return to Gyeongju.

There is also Maidaochuan in Luoyuan County further north, and the area around Qinggangling in the northwest is an important trade road pass, and he did not go for the time being, so he had to bring down the price of salt in Gyeongju, and then it was not too late to lead troops to inspect.

This circle turned down, more than half a month has passed, the matter is over, Li Chuyun wants to return to Xuzhou, but Zhang Yue is bent on retaining, saying that his inspection makes the government office lack shrewd and capable talents, and wants him to stay and help. Li Chuyun had no choice but to agree temporarily. As soon as Zhang Yue returned to the city, he found Xuan Chongwen and checked his precious saplings and cotton, which were growing well, which showed that Xuan Chongwen did not respond to the matter.

"What's so important about these flowers and plants, you might as well ask about the price of salt!" Xuan Chongwen didn't understand Zhang Yue's behavior very much, and looked unlucky.

Zhang Yue looked at the cotton seedlings, put down the flower pot, raised his head and asked, "The price of salt in the market hasn't dropped yet, has it?" Did a businessman come to your door? ”

"Nope! The businessmen have gone to find Du Sixun and Liu Jingye, these two local snakes have a background, they are the people of the Linggong, they have been very happy recently, collecting money and gifts, so happy! Xuan Chongwen said with an unhappy face.

"Take them down in the afternoon! Go to jail together! Even the thorn Shi was caught, and he was afraid of these two miscellaneous fish, the reason why he didn't do it before was to wait for them to come forward, otherwise Nai Zhe Linggong's face would not be harmonious......" Zhang Yue sneered.

In the afternoon of the same day, Zhang Yue really started to arrest Du Sixun, the deputy envoy of Gyeongju defense, and recorded the military staff Liu Jingye on charges of conspiring to raise the price of salt, resisting the inspection and making the government office errand.

The next day, an official notice was issued: In the future, if a merchant goes to Shuofang Yanzhou to sell salt, he must issue a salt guide in advance at the inspection and inspection office, otherwise once discovered, the goods will be confiscated, and the offender will be investigated for the crime.

The matter of salt prices was temporarily settled, and Zhang Yue wanted to return to Yanzhou, but the will of the DPRK and China was delayed, and a large group of criminal bureaucrats were still in prison and could not get out for a while.