The smoke from the Central Plains did not affect Li Jia at all, and even made the young emperor's appetite improve a lot. The deaths of thousands of people and soldiers were like a dish for him.

In other words, there is no difference between nine thousand people and ten thousand people in his eyes. It is better to make this war more lively and thus seek some benefits, such as population, wealth, etc.

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

Fortunately, unlike the Central Plains, which are like broken windows, Lingnan has long had its own bureaucratic system, which is much better than those military generals who govern the people, and at least they 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 prime minister's power and a guarantee for strengthening the monarch's autocracy.

After Anshi of the former Tang Dynasty, he lost the Central Plains taxes. The reason why it could be maintained was that he relied on the finances and taxes in the south of the Yangtze River and used them for the soldiers in the northwest, so he reorganized his strength and regained most of the world.

As for why Zhao Song had independent tax rights, he had his own difficulties. Because he had indulged the powerful and wealthy bureaucrats in annexing the land, if they were asked to collect taxes on their own, would there be taxes in the world? Who will 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 collected taxes. Therefore, they established a transshipment envoy, independent of the bureaucratic system. In addition to mastering all the financial or several ways, they also conducted inspections of local officials, maintained public order, counted criminal prisons, and recommended talents. They expanded rapidly and eventually became the highest executive officer.

Li Jia did not do so. She only regarded him as a tax collection department and was dedicated to tax collection. The rest were naturally managed by the government office.

Therefore, in Lingnan, the Transportation Office has a unique position. Although it is only from the sixth rank, it involves taxes and many miscellaneous tasks, and is of low status and heavy weight.

Such a government office has always been so distant from the government affairs, and it is not a matter of doing so. If you establish a inspection department, you still have rules and regulations, but in this way, the specific person in charge will be a headache.

Weakening the power of the prime minister is unanimously recognized by the emperors.

Logically speaking, the Tang Dynasty's general regime had already cut a lot, and there was no action in the later stage. Why did it cut at this time?

The prime minister at this time had more power than the prime ministers in the early Tang Dynasty. In the early Tang Dynasty, Hanlin scholars took the decision-making power, and the prime minister became the executor, so Anshi had no right to minister afterwards.

And now? The prime ministers did not even need to notify the emperor, but directly appointed officials below the fifth rank. The main reason was that the prime ministers devoured the power vacuum after the eunuchs' dictatorship.

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

Most of the financial power and military power have been cut off, but now, the decision-making power and execution power have to be cut off.

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

In the former Tang Dynasty, Hanlin Bachelors were decentralized because Hanlin Bachelors were often accompanied by the emperor, which was convenient for them to share power.

The cabinet of the Ming Dynasty actually just overwhelmed the decision-making power to execute. In the final analysis, it was still the Secretariat of the Secretariat, but it was just a change of name.

However, take your time, don't hurry, stability overwhelms everything.

Thinking about it in his heart, Li Jia couldn't stand the loneliness, disguised herself as she brought thousands of guards to a manor outside Fanyu City.

"It's pretty good here!" Li Jia felt a little moved after leaving all kinds of buildings and restoring to this nature.

The manor covering an area of ​​1,000 acres is extremely vast. At least, when Li Jia looked at it, thousands of sugar canes stood in the wind, covering the entire eye, extremely spectacular, and the air seemed to be a little sweet.

Seeing that the emperor had an idea, the guards next to him immediately moved, chose a sugar cane, cut it with a quick knife, clean it again and put it on.

"Crack!" He took a bite and was watery, but it was not sweet enough compared to later generations. After all, the latter was the result of thousands of years of cultivation. At this time, the bananas still had seeds, and they were not soft and sweet, but hard. Li Jia suffered a great loss.

"It tastes good!" Li Jia nodded and looked at the mill beside him. Hundreds of cows were working tirelessly, squeezing sugarcane one by one, getting juice, and then exposing it to the sun, and then getting black sugar sugar, like mud.

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

On the first day of the first day of Xinsi in the fifth year of Yuanding (112 BC), Emperor Wu of Han worshipped him at Ganquan Palace, and asked dozens of people including Sima Xiangru to write poems and praise him. He jointly produced the 19th chapter of "Song of Suburban Sacrifice", which contained the sentence "Taizun Zhejiu was aware of the qin".

The meaning of this sentence is: using sugarcane juice can relieve the wine that the nobles have not yet retired in the morning. It can be seen that at the latest in the middle of the Western Han Dynasty, people used sugarcane juice, which was not only a commonly used seasoning food, but also often used as a way to relieve wine.

The Tang Dynasty re-drawn the Western Regions, thus regaining the sucrose technology. By the Ming Dynasty, it invented the "yellow mud water decolorization method" to produce refined sucrose as white as snow and crystal clear, leading the world.

This is also an important commodity and core technology in China during the Ming and Qing dynasties.

When Li Jia arrived, he naturally knew that the simple method of discoloration was that mastering leading technology could bring huge benefits and should not be kept in the hands of those bureaucrats. After all, in the future, even the government can lose money even if it is large.

"Look, these white sugars are crystal clear and distinctive in size, and are simply treasures given by God. Who would have thought that yellow mud would have such an effect!" The manor in charge sighed.

Pressing the yellow mud on top of the black sugar will result in white sugar. No one would have thought of it. If Li Jia didn't like reading essays, she wouldn't know it, and she would have only a few understandings of the specific principles.

"How many kilograms of white sugar can you produce per day?" Looking at the black smoke, although it was not close to the sugar-making place, the heat wave had already come to your face, and the temperature here was more than higher than elsewhere.

"If the firewood can keep up, you can produce at least 100 kilograms of sugar every day!" The manager lowered his head, quite proud.

A pound of white sugar can be at least thirty stagnant. If you go to the Central Plains, it will be even more expensive. Even if you are fifty stagnant per pound, you will have 5,000 stagnant a day, and a month will be 150,000 stagnant...

Li Jiayue calculated and was more and more amazed. If sugarcane had no growth cycle, wouldn’t it be like playing in a million yuan a year?

However, this cannot be calculated like this. Scarcity is precious. If there are too many, the price will naturally be much cheaper.

"If you continue to keep it, a thousand acres are still not enough. Buy more land and plant sugarcane! If you really can't keep up, just harvest the black sugar produced and let's bleach it ourselves!"

Holding back the excitement in my heart, sure enough, knowledge is power, what else does he want to have golden fingers? Traveling through time is even golden fingers than golden fingers.

Li Jia even thought that she could use candy to exchange horses for Khitans, and export them to Dashi, Goryeo, and Japan. This was a huge benefit. If she hadn't been the emperor, she wouldn't be able to control it.
Chapter completed!