When he received the edict of King Zhao, Li Chao had already arrived in Jiaozhou.
The Red River was called the Xidao River at this time, and the state capital of Jiaozhou was located in the northwest of the Red River Delta, and the Red River flowed slowly from the edge of the city.
It is also the largest inland port in Jiaozhou, whether from the south to the north, or from the mainland to the coast, it is a must-pass place, and the geographical location is very important.
It is close to the ocean, the climate is pleasant, the four seasons are like spring, the rainfall is abundant, the flowers and trees are flourishing, the flowers are in full bloom, and it is called the spring city of a hundred flowers.
Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty set up Jiaozhi County, and Jiaozhou City was among them.
During the Southern Song Dynasty, Songping County was established here, and Changguo County was governed.
In the Sui period, it was changed to Songping County, which was the seat of Jiaozhi County.
Datang was re-established in Jiaozhou, and the administrative office was moved to Songping County.
A few years ago, Li Chao came to Jiaozhou with many noble families in the DPRK and China to develop here.
Song Ping City, also turned into a new river port city, the city has been expanded several times, the scale has increased a lot, also known as the purple city.
The Red River Delta, where Jiaozhou is located, has the most fertile fields, making it a rich granary.
Quang Nam Province, centered on Jiaozhou, has been rich in grain and sugar in recent years, and its shipyards and timber are also very famous.
The Li family and many other big families have already made a lot of money in Jiaozhou, and Jiaozhou sugar is famous all over the world and has become a boutique for domestic sales and sea trade.
In the last agreement, Li Chengqian, on behalf of the royal family, got the Beihai port next to Qinzhou, and also got another port, which was the Haiphong port at the mouth of the Red River.
This important port at the mouth of the Red River was named Haimen Port by Chengqian, and it is foreseeable that this port will be very prosperous.
Haimen Port and Jiaozhou Port, a seaport and a river port, will inevitably complement each other.
The most in Jiaozhou City is sugar and rice, followed by wood.
Most of the merchants here come to buy sugar and rice, or they buy timber.
There are also Sugar Street and Rice Street, which sell sugar and rice.
Li Chao and Cheng Qian strolled through the streets of Purple City.
Cheng Qian was surprised to find that there were merchants speaking Chinese everywhere, even the merchants in those shops, and even the vendors on the street spoke Chinese.
This place is actually more like the Central Plains than many places in Lingnan.
"Jiaozhou is a large inland port, which is rich in products, and the imperial court still has a strong control over it, which was similar to Guangzhou in the past.
Especially in recent years, a large number of merchants from the Central Plains have come to grow grain and sugarcane, set up sugar mills, and the rise of sea trade has also made Jiaozhou more lively. ” Many places in Jiaozhou are similar to Guangzhou, Guangzhou has the Pearl River Delta, Jiaozhou has the Red River Delta, both have a vast alluvial plain, and the benefits of the river and the sea, so that these two places have an excellent space for development.
Even during the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the Southern Dynasties never gave up this extremely distant Jiaozhou.
Jiaozhou's grain has always been very important.
Now, it has also become the largest sugar producing and trading place in Datang, and it has also become the largest seaport in the south of Datang.
"Sugar has become the largest industry in Jiaozhou and is a local pillar industry."
Cheng Qian was surprised, "Sugar can be made so big" "Your Highness, don't underestimate sugar, the sugar industry is very profitable.
The demand for sugar in the Central Plains is increasing day by day, especially for high-grade sugar such as rock sugar and white sugar, and the demand for milk candy and fructose produced by us is also increasing every year.
In addition, sugar has now become an important hot commodity in our export products, along with porcelain and silk, white sugar and black tea are currently our flagship export products. ” These are monopolistic commodities that simply don't exist on the outside.
Tianzhu people will only refine yellow white sugar, in the past has been shameless called white sugar, I don't know how much Persian Roman money has been cheated, and when Li Chao's rock sugar and white sugar appeared in the Persian Gulf, they were immediately amazed by them called rock sugar and frosted sugar, and the white sugar of Tianzhu people was no longer cared for.
Nowadays, even Tianzhu people are vying to buy Datang's rock candy and frosted sugar.
In fact, sugar production is not difficult, growing sugar cane, and then refining and decolorizing.
But sometimes, some processes that are not difficult, as long as they are kept secret, others will never be able to break that layer of paper.
The climate in Jiaozhou is very suitable for growing sugarcane, and the sugar content of sugarcane here is also extremely high.
Li Chao also changed many traditional sugar pressing processes, invented many new sugar machines, and increased the juicing rate.
The sugar production has been greatly improved, and the most important thing is the decolorization technology, as soon as the brown sugar is decolorized, it becomes white sugar, and the value immediately skyrockets.
The extraction of granulated sugar into rock sugar also adds a lot of value, and new products such as sugar and milk processed into toffee, and fruit processed into fruit sugar, are extremely profitable.
Quang Nam is now full of sugar plantations, sugar mills everywhere, and every sugar harvesting season, countless ships come in and out of Jiaozhou River Port, bringing a load of cane sugar.
Then countless sugar merchants arrived and bought the sugar.
The Li family's sugar factory in Jiaozhou City also processes the purchased cane sugar day and night.
In the entire sugar industry, the Li family controls the most critical sugar processing and wholesale.
Other sugarcane cultivation, sugar extraction, transportation, distribution, etc., have been given to others, and countless people are sharing in the rich benefits of the sugar industry.
"Sugar and tea also have complementary effects.
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In the past, we exported tea, but in fact, the sales volume was not large, mainly because the Fan people were not very accustomed to our tea, and only a few people liked tea cakes in the past.
Later, we had roasted tea, and the Fan people liked our black tea the most. ” Black tea is fermented tea, which does not have the bitterness of green tea and has a more mellow taste, which is more in line with their taste.
And when Datang's sugar was shipped to the West in large quantities, black tea with white sugar became their favorite.
This strange taste is not passed down by Datang.
But in Tessie, it's very popular.
They even add some milk in addition to black tea and sugar.
Therefore, now Li Ji's milk candy has also been unanimously liked by them, and the favorite thing of those Persian and Roman nobles is to make a cup of black tea from the Tang Dynasty, and then add a piece of milk candy, which is very tasteful and extremely pretentious.
"Drink black tea, add sugar and milk" Cheng Qian couldn't help but shudder when he thought of that picture.
He couldn't help but think that some people still like to drink group tea, an old-fashioned way of drinking.
Make a small piece of the group tea, first crush it into a powder, then decoction, and add seasonings such as salt and ginger.
That way of drinking tea, he didn't want to try it again after drinking it twice, but he didn't expect that those people in the West had a more unique taste.
"In addition to sugar, Jiaozhou is also very rich in grain production, especially in recent years, a large number of Central Plains tribes have come to establish plantations, introduced new technology, and popularized new agricultural tools, which has greatly increased the grain production of this rich plain.
Today, a large amount of grain is shipped to Guangzhou, Fuzhou, Hangzhou and even Dengzhou every year. ” In addition to sugar and rice, Jiaozhou impressed Cheng Qian, that is, there are many Han people here.
Especially in this purple city, the streets are full of Han people who speak Chinese, and many people think that they are in a city in the inland of the Central Plains.
"Actually, there are indeed a lot of Han people here, but not all of them are Han people, and there are many Jiaozhi people, but these people are more sinicized, if you only look at their appearance and speech, you can't tell the difference."
After walking around the street, the two went home.
They temporarily lived in the Li family's manor, although Li Chao came to Jiaozhou for the first time, but the Li family had already purchased many properties here, and there was a huge manor, covering a wide area.
"King Yue, an envoy from Hanjing has arrived, bringing His Majesty's edict."
Put incense on the table, welcome the holy decree.
It was an official who Li Chao didn't know who came to deliver the message, and he was very polite to Li Chao.
After the edict was read, the official handed the edict to Li Chao and congratulated him with a smile, "Congratulations to King Zhao on his promotion", King Yue and King Zhao are both princes, but according to today's system, of course, there is an order of high and low for the princes, Qin, Jin, Qi, and Chu are the most kings, and then Zhou, Lu, Zhao, Wei, etc.
Li Chao was originally the king of Yue, and now he has been renamed the king of Zhao, which is actually a lot higher in order.
Li Chao was the king of Zhao Jun before he was crowned the king of Yue, and then he was the prince of Zhao Guogong, and now the king of Yue has changed the title of King Zhao, not only in the front row, but also regained the title of the previous Zhao.
However, Li Chao didn't have much reaction to his change of title to King Zhao, and what surprised him was Li Zhi, the king of Jin.
In history, Li Zhi was the ninth son of the emperor, but before that, Li Shimin accepted the princess Yang of Qi into the palace, and the Yang family gave birth to Li Ming a few years in advance, and Li Ming became the ninth son of the emperor.
Then the Hanjing Rebellion was killed again, and after the Hanjing Rebellion, Wei Wangtai was renamed King of Jin.
Li Chao originally thought that there should be no Li Zhi in this time and space.
Unexpectedly, the eldest grandson queen still gave birth to this third son, although Li Zhi was born three years earlier than in history.
At this time, Li Zhi was no longer ranked ninth, but thirteenth.
But even so, Li Shimin actually gave him the nickname Pheasant Slave, named him Li Zhi, and named Li Zhi the king of Jin.
What does that mean Li Chao was even a little dazed.
Could it be that this is something that God has destined in the dark?
Now that Li Zhi has appeared again and has become the king of Jin again, can Li Zhi still be the emperor in history?
This cannot and should not be.
No, it's not a return to the historical trajectory.
At least, there is no Zhao King Li Chao in history, and Li Tai has not been crowned King of Qin in history, and the Chengqian in history is not the smart and precocious prince today.
So is there something wrong with the world, or is it just a coincidence?
"King Zhao" The man called Li Chao stunned and called him.
Li Chao came back to his senses.
"Thank you, the king."
Li Chao smiled at him, and the Li family came over there to send a thank you gift.
Cheng Qian also came over to congratulate Li Chao, "Congratulations to the teacher" Zhao Wang Li Chao, Li Chao just smiled.
His feudal kingdom has not yet been defeated, and it has changed from the Yue State to the Zhao State.
Zhao Guo, located in the west of Jiaozhou, felt a little strange.
"It seems that His Majesty really likes His Royal Highness's thirteenth brother, who has just been born for a full moon, and has already been named King of Jin."
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The general practice of the royal family is to wait until the prince is at least three years old before adding a knighthood, but when Li Zhi was just a full moon, Li Shimin added his title, and it was in one step, directly conferred the title of prince.
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