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The emperor and others were none other than Du You, who had previously been squeezed out of Raozhou, West Province in the south of the Yangtze River as a assassin, and later served as the envoy of the Lingnan Jinglu Festival.

At that time, Lingnan, which was still vast and sparsely populated and had many barbarian tribes, was also in turmoil, and was affected by wars many times. First of all, in 758, the first year of Su Zongqian, the merchants of Dashi and Persia hired sea bandits, attacked the city of Guangzhou by boat, expelled the local assassins, and burned the warehouses; Later, the barbarian chieftain Feng Chongdao made trouble, the Guizhou rebel general Zhu Jishi plundered, and the Xunzhou assassin Shi Ge Shu Huang rebelled, in short, all the hell modes were also tasted.

It wasn't until Xiao Fu and Du You passed through successively that the situation changed, and Lingnan also settled down. However, the governing style of the two is completely different, Xiao Fu is fair and honest, he ordered to come to Panyu in Guangzhou to anchor the ships for business, the government only levies light taxes, and he will not be contaminated with money, and for a time Panyu's maritime trade is extremely prosperous; But Xiao Fu was soon implicated in the case of Princess Gao Guo, and was demoted to Sima, and left the political arena gloomily, and he was succeeded by the shrewd and capable Du You.

Du You, who once advocated the excavation of a new Cao Yun and was expelled by Han Yun, got the biggest gain from his own experience: In these years, all righteousness and morality are false, and whoever can control the army, money and grain like Han Rong or Gao Yue, bring benefits to the emperor of the court, and can restrain or flatter the emperor, who can obtain the power to dictate the dynasty.

Driven by this idea, Du You began to levy a commercial tax on foreign ships in the port of Guangzhou, a "tax on the landing" of ships, a "treasure tax" on ship goods one by one, and a "strange money" on goods entering the market. In this context, every other month, some merchants "mysteriously die" and their property is confiscated.

Persia, Dashi and the small countries of the southeast also felt that the tax was heavy, but they did not dare to make a mistake to Du You, because Du You boldly used the flow of people from the Lingbiao, some of them went north to enrich the northwest frontier defense and made meritorious contributions, and some were selected by Du You and hired as military generals and financial officials in the Lingnan Economic Strategy Mansion, Du You relied on their support to strengthen the defense of the Guangzhou Mansion and deter this group of merchants, they could only obediently pay taxes for a few rounds, and the commercial tax of the entire Guangzhou actually exceeded the two taxes of cultivated land and households!

Du You only pays a fixed amount of two taxes, and keeps the commercial tax for "personal use", what is he doing? That is, he frantically used this money to worship the holy lord in the capital, and at once satisfied both the treasury and the emperor's inner treasury.

The emperor was particularly pleased, and thought that Du You had a good way of passing through the Lingnan and had excellent performance.

No, Du You has now entered Beijing in person and offered things to the emperor.

However, this time, Du You offered not rhinoceros horns, not pearls, not coral, not Lingnan gold sand, but a pair of small jade-white lions.

The lion cub is lifelike, the color is as crystal clear as snow, standing on a red plate, with its head and tail held high, which is particularly cute.

The Emperor, who was sitting on the rope bed, asked curiously if the lion was made for Amber.

Du You smiled and said that this little lion was made for "cutting".

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Just when the emperor was wondering, Du You explained that the cutting is also known as stone honey, which is particularly sweet and suitable for consumption.

The emperor lifted a little lion and took a bite, and it was really sweet and unusual, and his mouth and tongue were full of relish, and his mood seemed to be very happy, and his whole body was warm and comfortable, and he couldn't help but be amazed, saying that the taste of this cut was much stronger than sugar syrup.

The sugar in the emperor's mouth is actually what is now called maltose, which was the main source of sweeteners in the Tang Dynasty, and the sherbet is Sanskrit, which is now called sucrose.

It is also the "frosting" that Du You said.

In fact, whether it is frosting, cutting, or stone honey, the production method was introduced to the Central Plains in the early Tang Dynasty, and Emperor Taizong also promoted it, but it has never been able to occupy the mainstream position, so that after the Anshi Rebellion, it actually became obliterated in the Celestial Empire. After Du You went to Lingnan, although the local barbarian residents planted a large number of luscious cane, no one knew how to fry it into frosting, but they just gnawed and vomited the slag.

Teach the local people how to make sugar, in fact, is still a Buddhist temple monk, known as "Zou monk", this since the end of the calendar to cross the sea, always ride a white donkey to preach Buddhism, what to buy, directly hang the money silk on the ears of the white donkey, attach the shopping list, and then the white donkey himself will run to the market, the stall owner will follow the list, take down the money silk, prepare the goods, and then let the white donkey to bring back to the mountains where the monk Zou practiced.

One day, the white donkey didn't pay attention, and when he returned from shopping, he trampled on the sugarcane seedlings planted by the family surnamed Huang.

The Huang family went up the mountain to find Monk Zou and demanded compensation for the loss.

Monk Zou laughed and said that you grow sugarcane but don't know how to use it to make sugar, it is really a tyrannical thing, it is better to be like this, let the poor monk teach you the art of sugar making, how much more than ten times the profit?

After the Huang family got Monk Zou's method of making sugar from cane, they really got rich.

Later, after Du You learned about this anecdote, he hurriedly invited Monk Zou to come, obtained the sugar making operation, and asked the military government to make it into a picture book, which was regarded as a treasure, and immediately hired people of all ethnic groups outside the city to make "frosting" on a large scale.

At this time, the emperor was also moved, he pinched another sugar lion, and said to Du You, "Salt is salty, this icing is sweet, wine is strong, and tea is bitter, but these four things are indispensable tastes every day in the world." ”

Du You comprehended, and immediately asked the emperor to set up a new field, not only to the world's salt, wine, but also the world's sugar and tea, everyone, regardless of whether rich or poor, all need these four things to satisfy their appetites, and the court thus monopolizes the profits, isn't it wonderful.

The profit from the salt tax can be generated by the people of the world as long as they eat salt.

It's the same with sugar!

Immediately afterwards, Du You calculated the account for the emperor, and the tea and the frosting can each bring at least 500,000 yuan to the imperial court every year.

Naturally, Du You also has his own little Jiujiu, and now only Panyu in Guangzhou can produce frosting, and if he runs this specialty, he can definitely enhance his voice in the court.

The emperor and Du You hit it off.

Then the emperor naturally asked Du You that the more this kind of icing production, of course, the better, but what is the difficulty?

Du You said that the minister asked a special person to grow cane sugar in Lingnan, called "frosting households", but the whole Lingnan is still vast and sparsely populated, and the biggest suffering is the shortage of manpower.

"The manpower problem can be solved, do you know that Gao Yue is now recruiting and suppressing the Qingzhou Dangqiang?" The emperor had something to say.

Du You, who knew what he knew, immediately asked that the emperor should open the door to ask the right one in Yanying Palace, and give this matter to the end as soon as possible.

A few days later, the emperor summoned all the ruling ministers on the pretext that he wanted to make a "German sound" for the immediate victory against the Dongshan party, and threw out a topic:

Gao Yue has now captured no less than 40,000 men and women in Dongshan, what should he do?

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