Sucrose, also called frosting, also called cutting, this kind of food is similar to salt, everyone needs to eat, can eat sweet and caloric condiments, what a wonderful enjoyment, ancient times are not better than modern, ancient times only exist the worry and pain of insufficient consumption, modern while enjoying the convenient and cheap "industrial taste" on the other hand, what is still there to blow what the original ecology is all the fresh cultists who forget their ancestors.

In addition, the taste of sucrose is far better than the maltose that was commonly eaten in the Tang Dynasty, and it has great potential and value for promotion.

So why does Gao Yue advocate the sale of cane sugar, instead of advocating the sale of cotton, tea, and wine?

In fact, the reason is very simple, sucrose is the same as salt, the essence is still a condiment, this kind of thing can completely achieve "the rich eat more, the poor eat less", the consumption is not much different (the structure of the human body determines that you can't eat salt or sugar products, this has nothing to do with class), and it will not give rise to the life-and-death dispute between the salty party and the sweet party that is only available in modern times where biomaterial life is extremely rich. However, the latter three, especially cotton cloth, belong to the necessities of life, the rich can make a fuss about the texture if they have money, and the poor must have a five-foot cloth to protect themselves from the cold and shame no matter how poor they are, and tea and wine are also drunk in large quantities regardless of whether they are rich or poor, and the poor will never drink two dollars to stop.

Therefore, during the Southern Song Dynasty, there was a phenomenon that tea merchants could fight better than the regular army, and the Jin people had to rely on recruiting tea merchants to protect the city, which is not difficult to understand.

As for the emergence of illicit salt dealers, such as Huang Chao and Zhang Shicheng, it can basically be announced that the dynasty can be closed and renewed.

"Du You's practice in Lingnan can be promoted elsewhere." At this moment, Gao Yue sang praises for Du You in front of the emperor.

This kind of Duyou-style Lingnan experience, strictly speaking, is not unusual, and it was also formed after listening to Gao Yue's advice:

Du You sorted the large number of Dongshan Party slaves sent before, and the women and the infirm were assigned to work in the sugar cane fields and cutting workshops, and the sturdy men were distributed with weapons and practiced regularly, and the "liuren" with military talents (there was absolutely no shortage of such people in Lingnan) were used as middle and low-level officers, and he himself let his cronies to lead the army, so quickly organized an armed force of thousands of people, and Du You also asked the emperor to play the military horn of "Pingbo"; Immediately, Du You organized all the other local armies in Guangzhou into sailors, and with his identity and power as the assassin of Guangzhou and the envoy of the Tibetan ship, he ordered the big maritime merchants in the city to donate money to build a large number of warships, and hired foreigners who were proficient in navigation to get on the ships through the maritime merchants, who were responsible for controlling and driving, and after everything was ready, Du You presented the emperor with a copy of the "Request for Qiongzhou Form", and after receiving the approval, he crossed the sea on a large scale and sent troops to conquer Qiongzhou in the Zhuya area (that is, today's Hainan) - yes, Qiongzhou was not under the control of the Tang government at that time, As early as the second year of the reign of Emperor Gaozong of the Tang Dynasty (667), the local Li people, also known as the so-called "Dong Bureaucrats", launched a rebellion and captured the city of Qiongzhou.

After years of conquest, Du You's "Pingbo Army" finally cleared the Li people in the Qiongzhou area, after the rebellion Du You used thunderous means, sent thousands of captives to the Li people around Guangzhou Mansion to settle and deal with, his subordinates suggested that these captives be organized into households, "half of the tax is lost" (the barbarians in Lingnan only need to pay half of the amount of taxes), Du You disagreed, said that there is no need for this group of people to be a household, and in a blink of an eye they are all allocated to plant sugar cane, boil sugar frosting, or shepherd buffalo.

After the incident, Du You cut down trees and erected fences in Qiongzhou, burned earth to build a city, and built a stronger and more powerful Qiongzhou city wall, using this as a base to continue to go deeper into the interior of Zhuya and expand his power. After possessing the stronghold of Qiongzhou, the control of the sea routes in the whole of Guangzhou was further enhanced, and Du You made greater profits in the market trade, so he began to select his own elites from among the streamers to replace the earlier southern election and strengthen his own power. Although the emperor has also expressed concern and dissatisfaction with Du You's unauthorized appointment of exiles, what is the matter with you, a feudal official, using the central government to belittle people who have been in exile for a long time? But the emperor was greedy for the abundance of Lingnan every year, and in the end he only turned a blind eye.

It is not enough to use force alone, after all, due to the problems of transportation and terroir in Lingnan, the Tang Dynasty still could not garrison a large number of troops like the northwest and the Central Plains. He did not advocate a large-scale military attack on the barbarians in Lingnan - so Du You began to engage in economic aggression again, he asked the military officials to carry all kinds of rare goods from overseas, to run around the barbarian villages in Lingnan, the barbarians originally lacked ethics, and when they saw these goods, they wanted, but they had no money, so the husband sold his wife for buffalo, the father sold his son for bronze, the brother sold his brother for ivory, and the chieftain sold the clan for spices. At the same time, Du You will also pretend to be "generous", he sent someone to tell those chiefs: You can't afford these things, it's okay, I'm willing to pay on credit, if you can't pay it back in the next year, you can use the poor households in your clan to offset the debt. In this way, Du Mu brought tens of thousands of debt slaves from Lingnan East and West every year, and even from Fujian.

Some subordinates were worried, saying that the imperial court repeatedly banned the slave trade because of its "family affection that hurts flesh and blood", but Du You laughed and replied that barbarians have no ethics of flesh and blood, and husbands sell their wives, fathers sell their sons, and brothers sell their brothers. Besides, in my Guangzhou Mansion, they may be in a much better situation than they were originally in a better situation.

So some of these slaves were assigned to the mines by Du You, mining gold, silver, and jade; Some go to grow cane sugar, or raise buffaloes, and boil the sea for salt; There are also some ordered to renovate the post road, or increase the repair of the city, expand the capital city of Guangzhou - the original Guangzhou city buildings are all bamboo and wood, fire at every turn, Du Mu began to dig the canal, create a fire alley, and teach the local people to burn bricks to build houses, Guangzhou City will be very beautiful within two or three years, Du Mu and add the city of the building of the company, and set up a special "Fan Kefang" in the city, so that the sea merchants concentrated residence management, the goods they transported to be taxed, and the people who settled also had to draw household tax, Du Mu also quickly became fat, And Guangzhou also began to become a new source of wealth for the imperial court!

Therefore, if you have money and soldiers, you are a loyal minister.

According to Gao Yue's analysis to the emperor, now Guangzhou City can get 300,000 yuan a year, Fan Kefang can get 100,000 yuan a year, 400,000 yuan of salt profits, nearly 300,000 yuan of cutting profits, and mineral profits.

"But some of the courtiers are still quite dissatisfied with the use of slavery for production, take Du You as an example, Lu Jiu accused him more than once, and told me that Du You's trip, if it provokes the Lingnan Barbarian Change, it will be too late to regret it."

In this regard, Gao Yue smiled slightly, and said a few words, so that the emperor completely dispelled his concerns.

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