"If my expectations are right, my second brother's move this time, I'm afraid that many of you Tianxuan Society will disagree, because you don't have the strength to do so now! Even money and food have to come to me to raise money, how long can such a battle be fought? You can't do anything about you in Yizhou Island, Li Wanjiang, because the Great Zhou Sailor is weak, but you take the initiative to attack......"

Doesn't that give people a chance to annihilate you?

Your sailors are strong enough to capture a few ports in Minzhou County, and you can also occupy some cities and territories along the rivers, but what about after that?

Whether you can gain a firm foothold in Minzhou County is the key to success or failure!

If I were Li Feng, I would pretend to be invincible, retreat one after another, use the depth of Minzhou County to lure your main force deep into the interior, and then lead my troops to cut off all the rivers and roads into the sea, completely surround you, and then eat you all bite by bite.

Qian Yunfei was speechless again, because Xiao Chen's words were reasonable.

"It may not be what the prince said, right? I Tianxuanhui also has a lot of soldiers and horses in Minzhou County and various places, and when the time comes, they will act together, cooperate with us inside and outside, and blossom everywhere, so that Li Feng will suffer from the enemy on his back and be tired of coping...... But it's not a lonely battle, and if the prince is willing to send troops, then the chances of victory are even greater. ”

Qian Yunfei's ideals are very plump, but the truth is very skinny.

"What you say also makes sense, but the premise of all this is that you can win a big victory and defeat Li Feng in one fell swoop! It's really defeated, in that case, they will definitely do something, icing on the cake, and adding fuel to the fire! But if you lose, they may not be able to help charcoal, let alone moths to the fire, right? ”

Let's talk about my side.

Why did Li Wanjiang allow a mere 20,000 Xian cavalry to run rampant, but did not send a single soldier to fight it? He has tens of thousands of male soldiers in Yanyun Pass, and tens of thousands of elite Black Dragon Guards in Wolong Pass, can't he deal with 20,000 Xian Xiaoren?

The reason why he gave up Yanyun County was because he took into account the overall situation.

He knew that these soldiers and horses could firmly defend Yanyun Pass, and no matter how many soldiers came from the northern tribes, they would not be able to take a next step from here!

The northern border is stable, and he has no worries and can deal with you calmly.

Don't think that if you work together, Li Wanjiang will be anxious like an ant on a hot pot, he is scheming, let me tell you!

Qian Yunfei was also silent, and the eyes that looked at Xiao Chen were particularly complicated.

"Do you regret that you didn't kill me in the first place?" Xiao Chen sneered and laughed.

"It's a time and a moment." Qian Yunfei sighed, "At that time, killing you was like killing a chicken, and now killing you is like a tiger." ”

"Hahaha, Yunfei, you finally told me the truth today!" Xiao Chen laughed.

In fact, Qian Yunfei was wrong, and now he wants to kill Xiao Chen, just like slaying a dragon.

"By the way, Yunfei, I heard that you Yizhou is rich in sugarcane, and you can't sell it, is there such a thing?" Xiao Chen's thinking was really jumping.

"Prince, what do you mean by asking? Do you still want to do business with us? Qian Yunfei couldn't keep up again, and his brain couldn't turn.

"Why not?" Xiao Chen said with a smile, "Benevolence and righteousness are not a deal, as long as the price is fair and the two sides are mutually beneficial, I can also do business with Lord Yama, not to mention that we are still old acquaintances...... I've lost so much food and horses, I'm going to have to find a way to earn it back, right? ”

"Hehe, do you know how much sugarcane is produced on our Yizhou and nearby islands? You can't digest the output of one year in Yanyun County for ten years! Qian Yunfei meant that this kind of small business was not very interesting.

"The more the merrier, the more the merrier, I will take as much as you have, you can buy it with silver, and you can exchange it for things." Xiao Chen didn't buy sugarcane for chewing and playing, he wanted to produce white sugar in large quantities.

Sugar has existed in China since ancient times, but it is not our current white sugar, but maltose.

In "The Book of Poetry, Daya, Mian", it is said: "Zhou Yuan is full of flesh, and violet is like a syrup"

That's what we're talking about.

There are two forms of maltose, the flake is called the starch, the flower is called the honey, the thin paste is called the starch, and the sweet is like the starch.

The raw materials are not sugar cane, but wheat, barley and glutinous rice.

In the past and now, grain production has been very low, and the common people do not even have enough to eat, so it is impossible to use it to make caramel in large quantities.

Therefore, caramel has always been a luxury, and only royal nobles and wealthy landlords can eat it.

Remember that Zhuge Xiaosheng once gave Duan Ling'er a box of caramel candy, right? Duan Ling'er was reluctant to eat, and when she gave it to Xiao Ye, she was sneaky for fear that others would see it...... You know how precious this thing is, right?

A friend asked, there is not much food, but there is no sugarcane, right? Why didn't the ancients use sugar cane to make sugar?

This is the limitation of technology, and people today do not know how to extract white sugar from sugar cane.

Do you know what sugarcane is used for?

Feed the pigs.

The first to extract sucrose from sugar cane was Ah Sange, and their refining method was simple and crude, that is, the juice of sugar cane was directly squeezed, and then dried into a black syrup, which was decocted at high temperatures and finally made into a kind of hard sugar cubes.

Do you know how this sucrose came to our Huaxia?

Then we have to thank Wang Xuance, the awesome figure in the Tang Dynasty who 'destroyed a country with one person'.

Back then, he casually borrowed a few thousand people to destroy the Magadha Kingdom that offended the Tang Mission, arrested other people's kings, and brought back people's sugar making technology by the way.

How smart the Chinese people are, after the introduction of this kind of sugar production, it will be improved, and in the Ming Dynasty, a kind of "yellow mud water drenching sugar method" was finally invented, which purified the sucrose into white sugar that is almost the same as now.

This kind of white sugar once swept the world, which made many foreign devils who had never seen the world ecstatic and amazed!

Some historians even believe that the significance of the invention of white sugar is comparable to that of the Industrial Revolution!

It can be seen that all mankind's love for sweetness is the same.

Until the twentieth century, sugar was an extremely important and valuable commodity, and although its value was not comparable to that of gold, it was always a hard currency in circulation!

Sugar is also an important military commodity, and it has been strictly distributed for a long time, because it can bring more calories to the body than any other food.

Even now sugar is indispensable in the food of the army.

Xiao Chen, as a person who has come over, even the importance of sugar, and the first factory he plans to establish in Yanyun County is a sugar factory!

Yanyun County cannot grow sugarcane, but it can grow sugar beet in large quantities, but due to the local climate, the annual production is also limited.

If a large amount of sugarcane can be purchased from Yizhou, Xiao Chen can expand the scale of the sugar factory several times or even more than ten times!

At that time, Yanyun County will be able to become rich with just this one industry!

Moreover, white sugar can also be processed into various other non-staple foods.

For example, milk candy, you know, Yanyun County milk has ......

What other biscuits, cakes, drinks...... Even canned fruit.