Chang'an City, as usual, is bustling and lively.

At the beginning of the year, the Dianke Temple hosted a group of exotic guests from the southwest, although the language was not understood, but the exotic visitors brought many of their local specialties -

Sugar.

In the Zhou Kingdom, in addition to eating salt, sugar is also a luxury.

As the main country, Dugu Jialuo entertained foreign guests at a grand banquet.

When the guests stayed in Chang'an for a long time and could barely communicate with each other in language, Dugu Jialuo used a series of exquisite utensils made by the government supervisor to leave a lot of strange things brought by foreign visitors in the form of gift exchanges.

At the same time, he also paid some Tongbao and heavy treasures that could only be circulated in the Zhou Kingdom.

The visitors who received the coins were very happy and said that they would come more often and hoped to keep the conversation going.

After Dugu Jialuo handed over the sugar to Sinong Temple, Sinong Temple immediately sent a team to a foreign country in the southwest, and introduced the rich sugar from the foreign country in the southwest to Chang'an on a large scale in the form of trade.

At present, some foods made of sugar, such as hawthorn frosting, sugar red bean paste, etc., have been extremely popular in Chang'an.

But although it is not cheap, a bowl of red bean paste costs twenty yuan, but diners still flock to it.

After all, these days, if you want to eat something sweet, unless you are lucky enough to poke a hornet's nest, you can taste the sweetness from honey.

And honey is extremely expensive, in the past, ordinary people even had to eat meat once, and honey is more expensive than meat.

Exotic sugar is said to be sweeter than honey, and even if it costs four liters of millet at the lowest price, it is too cheap compared to honey.

Therefore, it is naturally worth the people of Chang'an to spend this money for recreation and taste.

Sinong Temple has tasted the sweetness of doing business with the country-

If you open a shop and sell something, you can earn money and the treasury will become fat.

Earlier, I was worried that the abolition of agricultural subsidies would lead to an empty treasury, but now that I look at it, I really think too much.

On the lively streets of Chang'an City, children are eating sweet food, and outside Chang'an City, a group of ...... are flocking into the city

It can be called a beggar-like Northern Expeditionary Army.

The people of Chang'an, who had not seen the wounded soldiers returning to Beijing for several months, suddenly fell silent, and they were quite surprised to look at the belated Northern Expeditionary Army.

They all hung their heads in embarrassment.

"The banner is black, and it is the military flag of the forbidden army."

In the silence, the people had already recognized their subordinates by the banners they had raised.

"You're coming back from the Turks?"

After the reform, the military law is strict, and the soldier no longer forcibly takes the people's assets, and the people are gradually no longer afraid of the soldier.

"Oops! The cattle and sheep you brought back! It's delicious! It's delicious! ”

"I heard that there are still 10,000 cattle grazing in the mountains! Waiting for them to get off the calf! ”

"Don't talk about eating Turkic barbarian beef and mutton before! Don't they come to rob us, our food is all burning incense! ”

"Northern Expeditionary Army! Mighty! ”

"Northern Expeditionary Army! Mighty! ”

Unconsciously, the people began to shout cheering slogans in unison! Raising his eyebrows, he was angry that the Northern Expeditionary Army beat the Turks and robbed them of their cattle and sheep!

It's a shame!

Just ask the people of the Central Plains, who doesn't think that the Northern Expeditionary Army can be regarded as finally giving this evil breath that has been held back for more than a hundred years?

And the soldiers of the Northern Expeditionary Army, who have a down-to-earth image, listen to the heroic cheers of the people, and they all feel like they are dreaming now.

I didn't expect this appearance to be so sought after by the people......

For a time, the soldiers who were stranded in the Shuozhou area, whose blood and military soul were gradually worn out by hardship, slowly recovered their original blood again in the echoing mountain cry!

……

"Hahaha!"

"The Mid-Autumn Festival is over! It's harvest season again! ”

Ma has been waiting for the day of the rice harvest for many months.

The Mid-Autumn Festival banquet was held in the palace, and after he ate and brought some food prepared by the Taifu Temple for the courtiers, he happily went to the depths of the palace and the palace arranged by the Taifu Temple.

After having another reunion dinner with A-Niang, he planned to pack his bags and go to the surrounding states of Chang'an to inspect the rice harvest.

Back at the palace where he stayed, Ma Changchang's A-Niang Li immediately hurried out:

"In the long run, my mother really can't get used to living in this palace, it's too big, not to mention, it's ...... I'm still in a panic, and I have nothing to do. ”

"I'm going home! Go back to Yangzhou! ”

"Our own land is now cleaned up this year, and we can harvest another crop of corn before early winter."

Ma Liu's family has long been suffocated, and he has lived in the palace for more than a year, because Ma is busy with official business, he always comes back for half a month as soon as he leaves.

A-Niang, who has never spoken very loudly, suddenly said that she wanted to go back to Yangzhou as if she was in a tantrum, Ma Changchang was surprised at first, and then realized that she was too busy and neglected to care about A-Niang.

"Mother, isn't it good in the palace? Eating and living are taken care of by Taifu Temple, and you can also go to the Imperial Garden to enjoy the flowers and go to the Wei River to see the scenery. Ma Changchang patiently waited for his aunt who had worked hard to raise him.

His idea is very simple, A-Niang has suffered almost all her life in order to be able to study.

Farming is so hard, and it bent A-Niang's waist early.

But A-Niang is still a hard-working tenant farmer, and half of the grain grown throughout the year is taken by large households.

In addition to ensuring the food and clothing of the two of them, the rest of the food had to be used to change clothes, bedding, and fuel-efficient lamps.

The most expensive are books.

One stone of millet can be exchanged for a book, and one acre of land can produce five stones of millet.

It can be seen that he was able to read when he was young, which made A-Niang suffer.

"Son, my mother is used to enduring hardships, and she suddenly asks someone to serve, but she is very uncomfortable," Ma Liu is also a reasonable person, if she is really suffocated, she will not talk loudly to her only seedling son:

"When you were able to walk out of Yangzhou and come to Chang'an to be an official, at that time, A-Niang felt that she could be blind to death."

"Later, you became angry, and you brought your mother to the palace, which in the past, A-Niang didn't dare to think of it, and I never imagined that one day, this palace would also allow my wife to settle down."

"It's fresh, it's relaxed, but you have to think about it, A-Niang has been busy all her life, and she is used to doing farm work, so it's really wrong to be idle, and I'm panicked."

"Son, just go back to Yangzhou to live in the old house, ask someone to wait, and my mother still owes a lot in her heart."

Ma Changchang didn't say much, it was rare for A-Niang to take the initiative to express her heart, in the past, she had broken her teeth and swallowed it in her stomach, and she had eaten all grievances.

It's just that I didn't expect that today's day when I came to stretch out my hand to eat and open my mouth was something that A-Niang didn't like.

"Okay, early tomorrow morning, I'll take A-Niang back to Yangzhou."

"Renovate the old house, buy some new bedding, and let A-Niang live the life she wants in Yangzhou."