Chapter 721: Sucrose
"Father, the last sentence you said was the most shocking to your sons. I don't want to suffer. ”
"If you want to not suffer, you have to eat normally, don't eat too much fried things, and don't eat things with more sugar, Qian Rujun said that these things that make you feel good, in fact, once you overdose, it will cause physical obstacles, but it is very bad for the body. ”
Emperor Liu Heng admonished bitterly.
"I heard that there are already a large number of merchants in Jinmai City, who have gone to overseas islands and started to grow sugar cane. Those places were originally inhabited, but the princess took what they needed and exchanged land with them.
I heard that their women now like to marry our men.
The women there are a little darker and less docile, but they are hardworking and very capable.
I heard Qian Rujun say that in such a place, there are actually many tribes, inside and outside, there are no less than 50 tribes.
The population is also small.
Even if the Han Dynasty occupies it, there are not many people who can go to the island to work, so she becomes one of the forces and participates in the political struggle on the island.
Now it is considered the number one force.
Moreover, Qian Rujun adopted an open way to let the people in this place grow sugarcane and rice grain, and Qian Rujun brought a lot of handicrafts that were not available there.
Let the people of the place concentrate on making sugar.
And handicrafts, where can be exchanged for a lot of sugar cane and grain.
The local products there, Qian Rujun after preliminary processing, then transported back to Jinmaicheng.
Rice, deerskin, venison, cane sugar, are specialties of the place.
It is said that in the northwest corner of them, there is also iron.
Qian Rujun took down all the tribes that made iron, and asked those tribes to help her make iron.
And she provides food.
It means that all of them are craftsmen.
They can't communicate with people outside the tribe, but their internal lives are much better.
In the past, they seemed to have a deal with Dongou countries. They were able to make iron and exchange some luxuries with people in the neighborhood.
Their ships were already in the strait, going back and forth countless times.
However, the land is self-sufficient in food and does not need to communicate with the outside world.
What they lack is some handicrafts. And swords.
Princess Jinmai did not allow the people of that place to trade swords with others, but only to use them.
However, the whole Han Dynasty, as well as the nearby countries, where is there a place where the handicrafts and knives produced can be compared with Jinmai City.
After seeing Qian Rujun's goods, they also looked down on what others had brought. ”
The emperor said bluntly about Qian Rujun's unexpected actions.
So far away, even if Qian Rujun founded the country, the Han Dynasty would not be able to reach it.
But Qian Rujun doesn't seem to have that kind of plan.
However, it can be seen that she takes good care of the people of the land. If there are people from Dongou and Minyue, or even where the people of my Han are going, she will intercept them and ask them what they want to do, and if they are rightful people and want to be people, she will distribute the fields to them and give them land rights certificates.
Although, the land title certificate issued by Princess Jinmai is useless in any place. But on that island, it was really useful.
Because, those lands were exchanged for her and the local aborigines.
She has autonomy, and she has sorted out the cooked land, and she can have a good harvest when she cultivates it.
In addition, there are abundant hydraulic facilities.
But where the person needs to pay the rent and tax to her.
She compares this to money, not rent, but taxes.
Originally, people who went there were supposed to avoid paying taxes. However, after calculation, people found that paying taxes to Qian Rujun seems to be more accounting.
They can be managed, they have better security, they can get benefits, but they don't have to do hard labor.
The management unit, which requires labor, will ask someone to do it, and it is all paid.
Crown Prince Liu Qi was very surprised after hearing Qian Rujun's actions.
This is already equivalent to establishing a government on that island, and implementing a different management method than the Han Dynasty.
Managers don't get by exam. It's about picking local talents.
Receiving a salary, for them, managing the local area, is the same job. There are work regulations. But there are no more rights than others.
The most incredible thing for the Han Emperor was that they paid enough taxes to pay for everything.
It is said that if you do business in the local area, you also have to pay rent and receive local protection.
There are almost no roads left in the area.
Even the local aborigines are willing to go to Qian Rujun's territory to make trades.
In such places, Qian Rujun established ten places on the whole island, and the rest of the land was still the land of the aborigines, which was under the management of the aborigines.
But Qian Rujun discussed the management rules with them at any time, thinking that what regulations needed to be changed, and everyone could eat and get medical treatment without calling around.
It seems that the sovereignty of the place is the aborigines, more than 50 tribes, but these 50 or so tribes, when making any changes, will consult Qian Rujun.
If you want to fight, you will also find an intermediary with Qian Rujun, and if you can't, you will fight.
Qian Rujun will take in the people in the ethnic groups who lost the war, become her own people, and be able to work in her territory, those people, because they are the ones who lost the war, their self-esteem is already damaged.
And it was not Qian Rujun who hurt them, but Qian Rujun was the one who saved them, so they were more grateful to Qian Rujun.
Qian Rujun collects the weak, and it is not easy to arouse the vigilance of the locals.
But the weak quickly became the strong under Qian Rujun.
Qian Rujun gave these people who were attached to him, gave them words, and let them learn Sinology, and let them learn the healing methods of the Han people.
If you go to the countryside of the Han Dynasty, you will find that in the countryside governed by Qian Rujun, you are even living better.
Qian Rujun will definitely give the most severe punishment to those who are corrupt.
And for people who do good deeds, even if he touches and does things, he can always let Qian Rujun's patrolmen see it.
The patrolman Qian Rujun got out, no one knew who it was.
But they knew that these people must be from Jinmai City, and only they would be so loyal to Qian Rujun, not caring about personal gains and losses, nor about the gains and losses of the family.
However, the people on the island will not know the family background of every person from Jinmai City, because there are too many people from Jinmai City.
Qian Rujun had a plan to let people immigrate over.
I also moved some of the technologies that were relatively secret to Jinmai City to the island.
On the island, although Qian Rujun's territory is the smallest, it has not formed an oppressive situation.
But Qian Rujun's rule in this place is extremely stable.
Even if it is the emperor, there is no way to confiscate Qian Rujun's land here, because the land here, except for part of it in her name, is owned by her subordinates who have been freed from slavery.
But it doesn't matter whether this landlord is a subordinate of Jinmai City or not, or even just an ordinary Jinmai merchant.
can find that they gave Qian Rujun all the right to control the land.
Sugar cane is now the largest production on the island.
The price of sugar is extremely high.
In Dahan, all the spices that can make the taste more complex and exceed the original taste are very expensive.
Even sugar is one of the spices, and ordinary people in Dahan have no way to taste such a happy taste in their lifetime.
can be like the crown prince Liu Qi, eating to the point that it is possible to have diabetes, not because the royal family now has money and can buy such things as sugar, but because all the spices that Qian Rujun supplied to the royal family are free of money.
For Qian Rujun, it will not be particularly difficult to grow spices, but a better climate is needed, and if the climate is not suitable, the growth of many spices will not be good.
Sugarcane sugar production also has to go through a certain process.
But it's also simple.
In the last years of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, this land was able to produce sugar on a large scale, and sugar was produced from private sugar canes, and as long as they were prepared to be able to press the sugar cane to produce juice and stuff the sugar juice dry, they could easily obtain sugar.
Even if it is a sugar stalk that is not pressed, it is a delicious snack in everyone's mouth.
"I feel like the righteous sister is showing us a new way of governance. She never goes to the show, but finds the right place and uses her way to let the world see, and the way she uses is better.
Moreover, that place is not on the territory of the Han Dynasty. Count, it's another country.
Didn't my father say that there were many ethnic groups there, each with its own territory.
It's like in the 100,000 mountains in the southwest, there are countless countries and ethnic groups, and in some countries, there is only one ethnic group. ”
"Do you know the size of the island?"
"How big can the island be? At most, it can reach the size of two or three counties, which is remarkable, right?"
"It's very big, and according to the reports of the people who went to explore, it is not easy to measure the distance between the east and west of this island, because this island has a big mountain that stretches from north to south between the east and the west. The height of the mountain is extremely high, and it rises and falls rapidly, and there are many wild beasts and wild people on the mountain. He tried a few times, but without success, and gave up on the move. Rather, there is a sea route.
The island is narrow from east to west and wide from north to south, and can be cultivated, mostly close to the west coast.
The east coast looked like a wall from the sea, and the guns were connected to the sea, and there was almost no way to go.
It's just that the sea is deeper, and the waves are bigger.
Nine out of tenths of the boat he was on could not stand the crashing of the waves and sank.
On the contrary, ships walking on the west coast can sail relatively smoothly as long as they bypass a few ghost mouths.
According to them, their Kedagran tribe often travels between the mainland and the island by boat, and often catches fish from the sea for a living.
I heard that the people in this place, before Qian Rujun went, were hunting and gathering hygiene.
Originally, it was not planted, but the land grew year by year.
It was after Qian Rujun went, exchanged land with them, and then began to farm. A few of their local people also began to learn to farm, but farming was originally a more laborious act. So after a few ploughing, they locals are lazy. When the harvest season comes, what is planted will be harvested. So they feel that such hard work is completely unnecessary. ”
"This kind of behavior is really stupid. ”
"They don't have to go hungry except for not meeting enemies or people who have a grudge, and there are so many creatures there that they can basically live well as hunt and gather things to eat.
At least in their eyes, it is alive and well.
The reason why people feel bad is that they are hungry before they have eaten a full meal, and after they have eaten a full meal, the most common situation is because of comparison. When someone else has an extra pair of shoes and an extra pair of pants than you, you will feel that your life is not good, and when someone else has a singer at home and can't afford to raise a singer at home, you will feel that your life is difficult.
At that time, even if he was well fed and warmly dressed, he would feel that his life was still lacking something, and he wanted to fight hard, and it was already his greatest wish to maintain the survival of life with enough food and clothing.
But when it begins to have other wishes, even he would rather go hungry, wear clothes, and have no way to escape the cold than fulfill his third wish.
Therefore, when we are emperors, we must be careful at all times, people's hearts will become, because people's hearts will never be satisfied with a person, if it is a person who is easily satisfied, it will not strive to climb up, unless this person is a second generation.
Otherwise, climbing up is already this person's habit, why is it that when the Han Dynasty became the emperor, it was getting calmer and calmer, and no one wanted to replace it, because at this time, many people of the older generation had withered, and those who climbed up were the second generation.
But a second generation, you will notice that his ability, often not as strong as the first generation.
At this time, we must use some new generations to maintain the survival of the imperial court, and if the future generations are not eradicated, it will happen that our imperial court will have more and more people to support.
When you accepted my throne, these people had already reached the third generation, and the third generation was also a time when the family was almost extinct, and in the normal situation of not being knighted, they were actually the third generation who couldn't support Adou, and they didn't have the excellence of the first generation, nor the calmness of the second generation.
In the homes of ordinary people, it is also rich people, and it is time to become common people.
But in our court, you can notice a phenomenon, our court must provide for him, and because we have the Xiongnu in the north, and the south has enemies such as Nanyue and Minyue.
We can't just have ordinary people, we must have people who can see through everything, ordinary people can barely do ordinary things, but you can notice that after a few generations, most of these people will become stupid. If they can't even read and count, then there is no salvation.
Qian Rujun is reminding us that in fact, they are all silverfish and a burden to the country, unless they can receive their share of money and status with peace of mind and reasonableness. ”
The emperor sighed, and returned to talking about sugar cane, he said: "The sugar made from sugar cane is indeed relatively sweet, and it is delicious, and I heard that the production method is not too difficult, but he is planting on land other than the island Han, and we have to collect taxes without collecting it, so it is inevitable that he will be very depressed." This island is not on the map of the Han Dynasty at all. ”