Chapter 309
"If my predictions are correct, I'm afraid that many people in your Tianxuan Society will disagree with my second brother's incident this time, because you don't have the strength at all right now! Even if you have to come to me to raise money and food, how long can such a battle last? You have nothing to do with Li Wanjiang on Yizhou Island, because the navy of Dazhou is weak, but you took the initiative to attack..."
Isn't that an opportunity for others to annihilate you?
Your navy is strong enough to capture several ports in Minzhou County, and you can also occupy some cities and sites along the river, 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 steadily, use the depth of Minzhou County to lure your main force into the interior, and then lead my troops to cut off all the rivers and roads leading to the sea, completely surround you, and then kill you one by one eat them all.
Qian Yunfei was speechless again, because every sentence of Xiao Chen's words made sense.
"It may not be what the prince said, right? My Tianxuan Society also has a lot of soldiers in Minzhou County and various places. At that time, they will make trouble together, cooperate with us inside and outside, and come to bloom everywhere, so that Li Feng will be attacked by the enemy and tired. To deal with it... But it is not a single army, and if the crown prince is willing to send troops, then the chances of winning will be even greater."
Qian Yunfei's ideal is very full, but the reality is very skinny.
"Your words are also reasonable, but the premise of all this is that you can win a big victory and defeat Li Feng in one fell swoop! It is really defeated. In that case, they will definitely make troubles one after another, adding fuel to the fire! But you If they are defeated, they may not be able to send charcoal in a timely manner, let alone moths to the flame, right?"
Let's talk about me.
Why did Li Wanjiang allow a mere 20,000 Xianbo cavalry to run amok without sending a single soldier to fight? He has tens of thousands of soldiers at Yanyun Pass, and tens of thousands of elite Black Dragon Guards at Wolong Pass. Could it be that he can't deal with 20,000 Xianbo people?
The reason why he gave up Yanyun County was because he considered the overall situation.
He knew that these soldiers and horses could firmly guard Yanyun Pass, no matter how many soldiers came from the tribes from the northern border, they would not be able to move south from here!
The northern border is stable, so he has no worries and can deal with you calmly.
Don't think that if you work together, Li Wanjiang will be as anxious as an ant on a hot pot, he has a deep mind, let me tell you!
Qian Yunfei was also silent, and looked at Xiao Chen with complicated eyes.
"Do you now regret that you didn't kill me back then?" Xiao Chen chuckled.
"One moment is another moment." Qian Yunfei sighed, "At that time, killing you was like killing a chicken, but now killing you is like killing a tiger."
"Hahaha, Yunfei, you finally told me the truth today!" Xiao Chen laughed.
In fact, Qian Yunfei was wrong, wanting to kill Xiao Chen now is like slaying a dragon.
"By the way, Yunfei, I heard that your Yizhou is rich in sugar cane, so why can't you sell it?" Xiao Chen's thinking was really jumping.
"Prince, what do you mean by asking this? Do you still want to do business with us?" Qian Yunfei couldn't keep up anymore, and couldn't turn his head around.
"Why not?" Xiao Chen said with a smile, "benevolence and righteousness cannot be bought or sold. As long as the price is fair and both sides benefit, I can also do business with Lord Yan, let alone we are old acquaintances... I lost so much food Horses, you must find a way to earn back, right?"
"Hehe, do you know how much sugarcane production we have in Yizhou and the nearby islands? Yanyun County can't digest the annual production in ten years!" Qian Yunfei meant that this kind of small business would not work What a meaning.
"The more the better, the more the better, I want as much as you have, you can buy it with silver, or exchange it with things." Xiao Chen didn't buy sugarcane for chewing and playing, he wanted a large quantity Production of sugar.
Sugar has existed in China since ancient times, but it is not our current white sugar, but maltose.
"The Book of Songs Daya Mian" said: "Zhou Yuan's 膴膴, pansy tea is like a sweet"
It's this kind of maltose.
There are two forms of maltose, the flaky one is called 饧, the one with flowers and nectar is called 饧, and the one with a thin paste is called 饧, which is as sweet as yummy.
The raw materials are not sugar cane, but wheat, barley and glutinous rice.
The grain output in the past and present has been very low, and the common people can't even eat enough, so it is impossible to use it to make caramel in large quantities.
Therefore, caramel has always been a luxury, and only the royal nobles and wealthy landlords can afford it.
Remember Zhuge Xiaosheng once gave Duan Linger a box of maltose? Duan Ling'er was even reluctant to eat it, and when giving it to Xiao Ye, she was sneaky for fear of being seen by others... You know how precious this stuff is, right?
A friend asked, there is not much food, but is there not enough sugar cane? Why didn't ancient people use sugar cane to make sugar?
This is the limitation of technology, people still don't know how to extract white sugar from sugarcane.
Do you know what sugar cane is used for?
feed the pigs.
Asange was the first to extract sucrose from sugarcane. Their refining method is simple and crude, that is, directly squeeze the juice out of sugarcane, then sun-dry it into a kind of black syrup, decoct it at high temperature, and finally make it into a kind of bangbang Hard candies come.
Do you know how this sucrose spread to our China?
Then I have to thank Wang Xuance, the awesome figure of "one person destroys one country" in the Tang Dynasty.
Back then, he casually borrowed thousands of people to destroy the country of Magadha, which had offended the Tang Dynasty mission. He also captured their king and brought back their sugar-making technology by the way.
The Chinese people are so smart. After the introduction of this kind of sugar production, they immediately improved it. In the Ming Dynasty, they finally invented a "yellow mud water sugar method" to purify the sucrose into white sugar that is almost the same as it is now.
This kind of white sugar was once popular all over the world, and many foreign devils who had never seen the world were ecstatic and amazed by it!
Some historians even believe that the invention of white sugar is of great significance, comparable to the Industrial Revolution!
It can be seen that all human beings have the same love for sweets.
Until the twentieth century, sucrose was still an extremely important precious material. Although its value was not as high as gold, it has always been a hard currency in market circulation!
Sugar is also an important munitions, and it has been strictly allocated for a long time, because the calories it can bring to the human body are unmatched by any other food.
Even in the current military food, sugar is also indispensable.
As someone who has experienced it, Xiao Chen even knows the importance of sugar, and the first factory he plans to build in Yanyun County is a sugar factory!
Yanyun County cannot grow sugarcane, but can grow sugar beets in large quantities, but affected by the local climate, the annual output is also very limited.
If he can buy a large amount of sugarcane from Yizhou, Xiao Chen can expand the size of the sugar factory several times or even ten times!
By that time, Yanyun County will be rich with just this one industry!
Moreover, white sugar can also be processed to make various other non-staple foods.
For example, milk candy, you know, Yanyun County has a lot of milk...
What else are cookies, cakes, drinks... even canned fruit.