The emperor and others were not others, but Du You, who had been excluded from Raozhou, West Road, Jiangnan, as the governor and later served as the governor of Lingnan.

Lingnan, which was still vast and sparsely populated by barbarians, was restless and was affected by wars many times. First, in the first year of Qianyuan (758), in the first year of Emperor Suzong of China, Persian merchants hired pirates, attacked Guangzhou City by ship, expelled the local governor, and burned and plundered the warehouse. Later, the barbarian chief Feng Chongdao caused trouble, Guizhou rebel general Zhu Jishi robbed, and Xunzhou governor Geshuhuang plotted against rebellion. In short, all the hell patterns were also experienced.

It was not until Xiao Fu and Du You made their own efforts that the situation changed and Lingnan was settled. However, the political styles of the two were completely different. Xiao Fu was fair and honest. He ordered ships to berthed in Panyu, Guangzhou to moor business. The government only collected light taxes and would never get involved in the money. For a time, the maritime trade in Panyu was extremely prosperous. However, Xiao Fu was quickly affected by the case of Princess Gao Guo and was demoted to Sima. He left the political stage sadly. The shrewd and capable Du You took over.

Du You, who once advocated the opening of a new canal transport, was expelled by Han Huan, gained the greatest gain from his own experience: Nowadays, all the principles and morals are false. Whoever can control the army, money and food like Han Huan (or Gao Yue) and bring benefits to the imperial emperors, and can restrain or flatter the emperor, who can gain the power to arbitrarily rule the court.

Driven by this idea, Du You began to impose commercial tax on foreign ships in Guangzhou Port. Ships docked must be "download tax", ships must be levied one by one, and goods must be levied "except money" to enter the market and sold. In addition, Du You also stipulated that if a merchant dies in the local area while doing business in Lingnan, all the treasures in his carry-on or in his residence will be "kept in custody" by the government. If three months later, his wife or children do not cross the sea to apply for the inheritance, all these treasures will be confiscated into the government. Under this background, every other month, some merchants "dead mysteriously" and their property will be confiscated.

The merchants from Persia, Dashi and small countries in the southeast also felt that the tax was heavy, but they did not dare to make a rash deal with Du You. Because Du You boldly appointed the people from the Lingbei River, some of them went north to enrich the northwest border defense and made meritorious contributions, while some were selected by Du You and hired as military generals and financial officials in the Lingnan Administration. With their support, Du You strengthened the defense of Guangzhou Prefecture and deterred these merchants. They could only pay taxes obediently. After several rounds of fetching, the commercial tax in the entire Guangzhou actually exceeded the two taxes of cultivated land and households!

Du You only paid the fixed quota of two taxes and left the commercial tax for "self-use". What did you do? That is, he used this money to worship the Holy Lord in the capital, which immediately satisfies the national treasury and the emperor's inner treasury.

The emperor was particularly happy and believed that Du You were good at conquering Lingnan and had excellent performance.

Now Du You has come to Beijing in person and presents goods to the emperor.

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

The little lion is lifelike, with crystal clear colors like snow. It stands on a red plate with its head raised and its tail swaying, which is particularly cute.

The emperor, who was sitting on the rope bed, asked curiously whether the lion was done by amber?

Du You smiled and said that this little lion was done for "Shadow".

What is evil cut?

Just when the emperor was puzzled, Du You explained that Sha Jue is also called Shimi, which is particularly sweet and suitable for consumption.

The emperor raised a little lion and took a bite. It was indeed extremely sweet, and his mouth and tongue made him feel very happy. His whole body was warm and comfortable. He couldn't help but be amazed and said that the smell of evil cuts was much stronger than that of sugar.

The sugar syrup in the emperor's mouth is actually what we call malt sugar. In the Tang Dynasty, it was the main source of sweet condiments. The shachi was originally called Sanskrit, which is what we call sucrose now.

It is also what Du You mentioned "icing frosting".

In fact, whether it is frosting, evil-cut, or stone honey, the production method of the early Tang Dynasty was introduced to the Central Plains, and Emperor Taizong also promoted it, but it never occupied the mainstream position, so that after the Anshi Rebellion, it became unknown in the Celestial Empire. After Du You took office in Lingnan, although the local barbarians planted a large number of sweet cane, no one knew that they could fry it into frosting, but they just ate it and spit it out.

The person who taught the locals how to make sugar was actually a Buddhist monk, known as "Monkey Zou". This man came across the sea from the end of the Dali period and always rode a white donkey with his head to preach Buddhism. If you want to buy something, you should just hang money and silk on the white donkey's ears and attach a shopping list. Then the white donkey would run to the market by himself. The stall owner would take the money and silk according to the list, prepare the goods, and then take the white donkey back to the mountains where Monk Zou practices.

One day, when the white donkey didn't pay attention, he broke the sugarcane seedlings planted by someone named Huang when he returned from shopping.

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

Monk Zou laughed and said that you plant sugarcane but don’t know how to make sugar. It’s really a waste of resources. It’s better to do this. I will teach you sugarmaking skills and make more than ten times more profitable.

After the Huang family got the method of Monk Zou using sugar cane, they became rich.

Later, after Du You learned about this anecdote, he hurriedly invited Monk Zou to come and obtained the sugar production technique. After asking the military government to make it into pictures and treat it as a treasure. He immediately hired households of all ethnic groups outside the city to create "icing frosting" on a large scale.

The emperor was also moved immediately. He pinched another sugar lion and said to Du You, "Salt is salty, the frosting is sweet, the wine is strong, and the tea is bitter, but these four things are indispensable flavors that are indispensable to all the scholars and common people in the world every day."

Du You understood the truth, so he immediately asked the emperor to set up a new venue, not only to ask for salt and wine, but also to ask for sugar and tea in the whole world. No matter whether it is rich or poor, they all need these four things to satisfy their appetites. Isn’t it great for the court to sell profits?

The profits of salt tax can be generated by people all over the world as long as they eat salt.

The same goes for sugar!

Then Du You made a calculation for the emperor, tea and frosting each could bring at least 500,000 jin of money to the court every year.

Of course, Du You also has his own little jiujiu. Now only Guangzhou Panyu can produce frosting. If he runs this specialty, he will definitely enhance his voice in the court.

The emperor and Du You hit it off.

Then the emperor also naturally asked Du You, saying that the more you make this kind of frosting, the better, but what difficulties do you have?

Du You said that I asked a special person to grow sugarcane in Lingnan, which is called the "icing household". However, the entire Lingnan is still vast and sparsely populated, and the biggest pain is that it is insufficient staff.

"The manpower problem can be solved. Do you know that Gao Yue is now extermination of the Qingzhou Gangqiang?" The emperor said something.

Du You, who knew it, immediately asked the emperor to open the wall to ask questions and make the matter as soon as possible.

A few days later, the emperor summoned all the ruling prime ministers on the grounds that he wanted to make a "de-sounding sound" for the victory of Dangxiang of Dongshan immediately, and then raised a topic:
Chapter completed!