The smoke of gunpowder in the Central Plains did not affect Li Jia at all, and even made the young emperor's appetite improve a lot. The death of thousands of people and soldiers was like a dish to him.

In other words, there is no difference between 9,000 people and 10,000 people in his eyes. It is better to make this war more lively and gain some benefits, such as population, wealth, etc.

It has become Li Jia's habit to make Zhao Song bleed more. The imperial army of up to 200,000 can make all the countries in the world breathless, even the Khitan.

Fortunately, unlike the broken-window Central Plains, Lingnan has already had its own bureaucracy, which is much better at governing the people than those military generals. At least it can receive taxes normally.

"The tax power must be made independent of the prime minister!" Li Jia said in a deep voice. This is an important measure to weaken the power of the prime minister and also a guarantee to strengthen the monarch's autocratic power.

After the Anshi period of the former Tang Dynasty, taxes from the Central Plains were lost. The reason why they were able to maintain it was that they relied on the finances and taxes from the south of the Yangtze River, which were used for the troops in the northwest. Therefore, they were able to regroup and regain most of the world.

As for why Zhao and Song had independent taxation rights, they also had their own difficulties. Because they allowed the powerful bureaucrats to annex land, if they were allowed to collect taxes for themselves, would there be any taxes in the world? Who would support the officials in Tokyo?

Obviously, the Zhao family also understood this truth. On the one hand, they weakened the power of the prime minister, and on the other hand, they collected taxes. Therefore, they set up transfer envoys, which were independent of the bureaucracy. In addition to controlling one or more channels of wealth, they also led and inspected local officials to maintain

His responsibilities such as public security, counting prisons, and recommending talents increased rapidly, and he even became the highest chief executive along the way.

Li Jia, on the other hand, only regarded it as a tax collection department, specializing in tax collection, and other matters were naturally managed by the yamen.

Therefore, in Lingnan, the transfer position of the Si Yamen is very unique. Although it is only the sixth rank, it involves taxation and many miscellaneous affairs, and its position is humble and powerful.

It is not a problem that such a yamen has always been so isolated from the government. To establish an inspection department, rules and regulations must be in place, but in this case, the specific person in charge will be a headache.

Weakening the power of the prime minister was unanimously approved by the emperors.

It stands to reason that the group-level system in the Tang Dynasty had already been reduced a lot, and no action was seen in the later period. Why should it be reduced now?

The prime minister at this time had more power than the prime minister in the early Tang Dynasty. In the late Tang Dynasty, Hanlin scholars had the decision-making power and the prime minister became the executor, so there was no powerful prime minister after Anshi.

But now? The prime ministers directly appointed officials below the fifth rank without even informing the emperor. This was mainly because the prime ministers had swallowed up the power vacuum left after the previous eunuch dictatorship.

If it is not cut, the prime ministers will really endanger the imperial power.

Financial power and military power have been reduced by most, but now, decision-making power and execution power always have to be reduced.

If you don't cut it, it's like letting yourself slap yourself. Will there still be pain?

In the former Tang Dynasty, Hanlin scholars were used to decentralize power. This was because Hanlin scholars often accompanied the emperor for convenience, so they were able to share power. In fact, the cabinet of the Ming Dynasty only overpowered the decision-making power over the executive power. In the final analysis, it was still Zhongshu.

The provincial minister, provincial minister, just changed his name.

However, take your time, take your time, and stability is paramount.

Thinking about it in his heart, Li Jia couldn't bear the loneliness. He dressed up in disguise and took thousands of guards to a manor outside Panyu City.

"It's not bad here!" Li Jia felt a little emotional after leaving all kinds of buildings and returning to nature.

The manor covering an area of ​​1,000 acres is extremely vast. At least, when Li Jia took a look, thousands of sugar canes stood facing the wind, covering the entire eyeball. It was extremely spectacular, and the air seemed to be a little sweet.

Seeing that the emperor had an idea, the guard on the side immediately picked up a piece of sugar cane, cut it with a sharp knife, washed it again and presented it to him.

"Crack!" I took a bite and it was watery, but compared with later generations, it was still not sweet enough. After all, the latter was the result of thousands of years of cultivation. The bananas at this time even had seeds, and they were not soft or sweet when eaten.

, it was so hard that Li Jia suffered a big loss.

"It tastes good!" Li Jia nodded and looked at the mill nearby. Hundreds of cows were working tirelessly, squeezing the sugar cane dry one by one to obtain the juice, and then exposing it to the sun to obtain black sucrose.

The color of mud.

Sucrose is the source of white sugar, and China is one of the first countries in the world to use sugar cane to extract sugar.

On the first day of the eleventh month of the fifth year of Yuan Ding (112 BC), Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty offered sacrifices to Ganquan Palace. He ordered Sima Xiangru and dozens of other people to write poems in praise of him. They jointly produced nineteen chapters of "Song of Suburban Sacrifice", including "Tai Zun Zhe".

The sentence "Pulse Analysis Chao Bao".

The meaning of this sentence is: sugarcane juice can be used to relieve the lingering hangover of the nobles in the morning. It can be seen that at least in the middle of the Western Han Dynasty, people used sugarcane juice, not only as a commonly used seasoning food, but also as a common food.

To relieve hangover.

The Tang Dynasty re-explored the Western Regions and regained sucrose technology. In the Ming Dynasty, the "yellow mud water decolorization method" was invented to produce refined sucrose as white as snow with crystal-clear particles, leading the world.

This was also an important commodity and core technology in China during the Ming and Qing Dynasties.

When Li Jia arrived, he naturally knew the simple method of depigmentation. Mastering leading technology can bring huge benefits, and it must not be left in the hands of those bureaucrats. After all, even the big officials in Canada can lose money in future generations.

"Look, these white sugars are crystal clear and have clear particles. They are simply treasures given by God. Who would have thought that yellow mud can have such an effect!" the manor's steward said with emotion.

If you press yellow mud on brown sugar, you will get white sugar. No one would have thought of this. If Li Jia hadn't liked reading essays, he wouldn't have known about it, and he had only a limited understanding of the specific principles.

"How many kilograms of sugar can be produced every day?" Looking at the black smoke, although we are not close to the sugar production area, the heat wave has already hit us, and the temperature here is much higher than elsewhere.

"If the firewood can keep up, at least a hundred kilograms of sugar can be produced every day!" The steward lowered his head, feeling quite proud.

A pound of white sugar costs at least 30 guan. If you go to the Central Plains, it is even more expensive. Even if a pound is 50 guan, it is 5,000 guan per day, and 150,000 guan per month...

The more Li Jia calculated, the more amazed he became. If sugar cane had no growth cycle, wouldn't it be just a joke to make millions of sugar canes a year?

However, it cannot be calculated this way. Things are more expensive when they are rare. If there are more of them, the price will naturally be much cheaper.

"Keep going, a thousand acres is still not enough. Buy more land and plant sugar cane! If you can't keep up, just harvest the brown sugar produced and bleach it ourselves!"

Holding back the excitement in my heart, sure enough, knowledge is power, so why else do they need a golden finger? A time travel is even more golden than a golden finger.

Li Jia even thought that sugar could be exchanged for horses from the Khitans, and it could also be exported to China, Korea, and Japan. This was a huge benefit. If he hadn't been the emperor, he would have been unable to control it.
Chapter completed!