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Chapter Three Hundred and Eighty Sixth Inspector Banquet

The first thing Siyu did when she came back was to take out the pottery jars that she put in in the morning from the well water in the back house. She didn't bother to dry the crystal water droplets on the pottery jars, carefully removed the sealed glue cover on the pottery jars, and uncovered the oil paper. A fragrance of fruit surged from the can. The pottery jar was seven inches high, five inches in diameter, and had a big belly and a thin mouth. One can hold about three kilograms of fruit. Siyu closed her eyes and took a deep breath of the fragrance intoxicatingly.

There is a pavilion in the northwest of the courtyard. There are trees next to the pavilion, which are very shaded. There are stone tables and chairs in the pavilion. In summer, the whole family eats and cools down here. Xinfei has asked the little girl to set up a few bowls and urges Siyu, "It's so hot, pour out the sugar fruits to relieve the fatigue."

The emperor secretly ordered Prime Minister Xinfei to clear out the remnants of the Yuantian Sect. During the Tiantian Sect, Xinfei and Siyu both had to go to Longwei Mansion to handle the work.

Siyu used a spoon to put out the peach meat in the jar. The peach meat was kept fresh. Today is the fifteenth day. The fruits in the jar have not deteriorated at all. After adding honey, the sweetness of honey is added, which is sweeter than the flavor of the fruit itself.

Jiang Anyong and Shitou came back from the back door. Jiang Anyong shouted from a distance: "I need less flesh, give me more sugar water. I have been busy all day, sweating all over, and drink more water."

Siyu said angrily: "You can choose, who doesn't know that sugar water is better."

The sugar water soaked in the flesh melted the original flavor of the fruit into it. The sour and sweet flavor was very strong. Everyone liked to drink it. Although Siyu said that, she still felt heartbroken by her husband and gave him two more spoonfuls of sugar water.

Shi Tou took the bowl and drank a sip of candy water first, then took a piece of peach meat and ate it in his mouth, and teased, "Sister Siyu is so partial. I'm just giving it to Uncle An Yong, not me."

Siyu blushed and said, "Give it, give it to you all." As she said that, she poured the remaining sugar water in the jar into the stone bowl.

Xinfei looked into the front yard and said to herself: "It's almost dark, why haven't An Yi come back yet? The yamen has already dispersed."

Jiang Anyong also said: "When Shi Tou and I came, the yamen had already closed. I should be back soon."

A quarter of an hour later, Jiang Anyi returned to the house from the back door, following Hua Sima and Shi Qingjian. These two people were Jiang Anyi's confidants. Everyone stood up to greet him. Jiang Anyi glanced at the stone table and smiled and said, "Closing it out, and then taking two cans of sugar fruits. Please ask Mr. Shi and Siyuan to taste it."

Hua Siyuan raised his nose and sniffed it, and said with a smile: "It smells so fragrant, it tastes like peaches. An Yi said that he would invite Mr. Shi and me to taste some good things. It doesn't mean peaches. It's all over the street. This is not a good thing. An Yi, you have good skills. If you make some good dishes, let's have two drinks with Mr. Shi."

Shi Qingjian sat down steadily. He knew that the lord did not care about these trivialities and said, "My Lord Hua, don't be impatient. My head of the family said it publicly, so naturally he won't lie to you."

During this period, Shi Mingyu took Yu Qingshan to build a border city in the Western Regions outside the Xicheng, which was deeply trusted by Jiang Anyi. Everyone in the government office knew that this young man must be reused. In private, Jiang Anyi and Shi Qing understood the truth, and wanted Shi Mingyu to replace the original recorder and join the army at the end of the year.

Shi Qingjian had a full understanding of Jiang Anyi. Jiang Anyi's behavior was very consistent with his taste. Good birds chose trees to live in. Shi Qingjian expressed his willingness to serve his subordinates to Jiang Anyi. Jiang Anyi was very happy. He was deeply moved by the importance of talents. Tian Shoulou asked him about the news in Beijing. Zhang Keji was in Pingshan Town and gave him no worries. Shi Qingjian was smart in dealing with things and was old. With his help, Huazhou was much easier.

Shi Tou brought out two pots of pottery in the wing room, carefully uncovered the lid, poured the flesh into the bowl, one bowl was honey melon and the other was fragrant pear. Hua Siyuan asked strangely: "Why did you soak the flesh in water, but it smelled very fragrant."

After drinking a sip of candy water, Hua Siyuan's eyes lit up and he praised: "It's delicious."

Then he ate a piece of honeydew melon and smiled and said, "No, it has a unique flavor."

Shi Qingjian tasted both bowls and smiled and said, "The flavor is excellent, but the dessert made by the lord is indeed a good thing."

There were still many in the jar. Siyu looked at it and took another bowl of honey melon for herself. Jiang Anyi said, "Siyu, this thing is too sweet. Medical books say that eating too much sweetness can easily lead to diabetes. You can't eat anything too much, so you should eat less."

When Jiang Anyi made fruits, he made fifty-two cans. After fifteen days, he ate fourteen cans. Jiang Anyi only allowed everyone to eat one can every day. Hearing Jiang Anyi's words, Siyu was very dissatisfied and complained: "Uncle, you are too stingy, and you can't bear to spend a few cents of money, why don't I pay for a few trucks of fruits?"

Xinfei twisted her junior sister and smiled and said, "You little girl is not old or young, why do you say that to your uncle? Is An Yi the kind of stingy you said?"

Regarding Siyu's quick words, Jiang Anyi could only shake his head and explain: "One of the time, this thing really cannot be eaten too much, and secondly, I want to see how long this thing can be stored in a jar and not broken. In the future, this technique will be passed on to the people and seek a way out for the people of Huazhou."

Si Yu said this solemnly and looked down upon her, and said with a slight remark: "Uncle is concerned about the people and has a broad mind. I think he is unrestrained. I hope he will forgive his crimes."

Shi Qingjian asked quickly: "How many days have the fruit in this pottery jar been?"

"It's been fifteen days."

"It's not bad at all in fifteen days, and the flavor is better. It's true that adults are the hands of gold." Hua Siyuan praised while eating fruit.

Shi Qingjian asked in a move, "Do you really want to impart this method to the people of Huazhou?"

"Yes, Huazhou is a place of war, and people are in a difficult situation. The fruits and melons and fruits produced are not easy to preserve and cannot be profitable. I have been thinking for many days before I remembered that there were records of sugar-making fruits in an ancient book. I tried to do it, but I didn't expect it to be done. If the people of Huazhou got this method, the fruits and fruits in their homes could be stored for a longer time and they could also sell some money to live." Jiang Anyi smiled.

Hua Siyuan and Shi Qingjian looked at each other, and they stood up together, bowed respectfully to Jiang Anyi, and said, "It is a blessing for the people of Huazhou to think of the people of the world. On behalf of the people of Huazhou, we thanked the people of Huazhou for their own lives."

My husband was respected, Xinfei and Youyou were honored, and he smiled and stood up and said, "Mr. Shi, Lord Hua, you chat slowly. I'll go to the kitchen to prepare some wine and food, Siyu, Shi Tou, you go to the kitchen with me."

Xinfei could not cook and make dishes, but in front of Shi Qingjian and Hua Siyuan, he had to pretend to be able to enter the hall and eat the kitchen. Shi Tou knew the true nature of his wife, so it was of course his business to cook in the kitchen.

In the pavilion, Shi and Hua slowly tasted sugar fruits. Jiang Anyi said: "I have no bottom of how many days the sugar fruits can be stored, but I guess they can be stored for at least one month."

Shi Qingjian smiled and said, "One month is enough to sell to the most remote prefectures and counties in Dazheng. It only takes twenty days to go from Huiye Prefecture to the farthest country in the Western Regions. These sugar fruits can allow the people of Huazhou to have enough food and clothing and live a good life from now on. I wonder how much the cost of this can of sugar fruit is?"

Jiang Anyi tapped the edge of the bowl with his finger and thought for a moment: "Fruits are cheap, but they cost a few cents. If you customize a large amount of pottery jars, it's not expensive. It's about ten cents. Adding honey to the water, this one is more expensive, and it costs 80 cents. With the consumption of labor and firewood, I estimate that the cost of a can of sugar fruit will not exceed 100 cents."

Hua Siyuan said, "I heard that a honey melon in Kyoto costs three or four taels of silver, and the price of a pound of grapes is also more than two taels of silver, and the price of fragrant pears and other items is also not expensive. If you can sell sugar fruits to Kyoto, you will cost at least ten taels of silver in this can."

From a hundred liters to ten taels of silver, Shi Qingjian's heart beat violently, saying, "It is said that adults are lit gold hands, and they are indeed well-known. Huazhou fruits are made into sugar fruits by adults, which is really like turning stones into gold. The most respectable thing is that adults selflessly gave this method, truly achieving 'worry about the world before the world'. I feel inexplicably impressed. It is really a blessing for me to be able to follow the lord."

Hua Siyuan nodded repeatedly and bowed and said, "Hua is also deeply honored to be able to work with the adults."

Jiang Anyi said: "The two are too good. Since Jiang has come to Huazhou, he must do some practical things for the people, serve as an official and benefit the people."

His tone was somewhat complacent. Shi Qingjian heard his lord's compliment and smiled and said, "The lord promoted Qingwu tea in Fuluo County. Qingwu tea has become a famous tea in Dazheng; the Huangyang Academy was established, and the "Huangyang Ming" inspired many poor students to seek progress; the Huangyang Temple was built, and the number of people who believed in Buddhism increased day by day; the Songchang Tower by Songchang Lake, all the scholars in the world recited "Before the worries of the world and worry about the world, and then be happy about the world'. The lord did it in Fuluo County and the world was instructed for it. Now the lord's princess is in Huazhou, and the sugar fruit soybean is passed down by the people, so it will definitely be passed down to the people."

Shi Qingjian's flattery was reasonable and well-founded. Hua Siyuan was a martial artist. He didn't have so many words. He smiled dryly: "Mr. Shi said very well, Hua deeply felt the same."

Jiang Anyi laughed proudly, raised the bowl to replace the wine with sugar water, and everyone clinked the glasses.

Putting down the bowl, Jiang Anyi said: "This process of making sugar fruit is not difficult. Jiang has a selfish intention. He wants the children in the orphanage to help with some work. He gives them five cents of labor costs per jar. They have learned the skills and they don't have to worry about their livelihood in the future."

When Jiang Anyi rectified human trafficking, Hua Siyuan kept following him. He was very pity for the orphans and immediately agreed: "Sir, kind, this matter is very good."

Shi Qingjian slowly put the bowl back on the table and said, "Huazhou is the state of fruits and melons. Fresh fruits and melons are on the market from April to October. Now it is July. If time is too late, a batch of sugar fruits will be sold this year. Huazhou has a huge amount of fruits and fruits, and it is far from enough to rely on the staff of Saint-School orphanages alone. Since the lord wants to benefit all the people in Huazhou, it must be promoted by the government."

Jiang Anyi nodded, and the three of them discussed in detail. Xinfei asked the servant to deliver the food and drinks. The three of them drank and talked, and they parted with all their fun.

At the end of July, the county magistrates of the fifty-three counties in Huazhou received official documents from governor Jiang and ordered them to arrive at the government office on the eighth day of the eighth day, and there were some major issues to discuss. This was the first time that governor Jiang had summoned the county magistrates from each county after he took office. Everyone dared not neglect them. Starting from the fifth day of the eighth day, county magistrates came to visit Jiang Anyi with gifts. Jiang Anyi asked the county magistrates to live in the inn, but did not see anyone privately. Only Fan Shiben arrived on the seventh day of the day and moved into the back house of the government office. The other county magistrates were jealous but helpless. Who told County magistrate Fan to be the senior brother of Lord Jiang?
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