Datang: Acting as a celestial mystery at the beginning

Li Yi'an asked Rondo to be thrown on the ground, and asked, "What else do you have to say?"

Rondo didn't make any noise, and he didn't say he would surrender and beg for mercy. He really deserved to be the strongest of all the rebels, and he seemed a bit spineless.

After thinking for a long time, he said: "I have nothing to say when I have fallen to this point."

He obeyed, and he had to obey.

"Lock him up!"

Li Yi'an said again: "Go and invite that old man over."

After a while, the old man came to Li Yi'an, his emotions became more agitated, and he hurriedly said: "Thank you, General, thank you, General..."

He said thank you several times in a row, tears filled his eyes, it can be seen that these ordinary people were often bullied by Rondo on weekdays.

"Old man doesn't have to be like this."

Li Yi'an said: "It's not a big deal without Rondo. You still have many families here, and our plan has not been completed yet."

"That's what the general said!"

The old man nodded.

"Go back and tell your people to wait for me in the village in the afternoon."

Li Yi'an said: "I want to meet you once and talk to you about something, if possible."

The old man said: "Yes, of course!"

Li Yi'an is their great benefactor, no matter what they do, whoever dares to oppose is their public enemy.

"Okay, you go back and wait for me first."

Li Yi'an asked to send him away, and asked about the casualties in Su Lie's army.

After finishing everything, everyone went back to rest.

Soon it was afternoon again, Li Yi'an came to their village at the appointed time, first said politely, and then said: "Old man, do you have a lot of sugar cane here?"

"Of course a lot!"

The old man nodded and said, "Does the general need sugar cane? I'll have someone bring it here."

The best time to eat sugarcane is in winter, especially after being hit by frost, the sugar contained in it will be higher, that is, now.

"Let someone send a batch to our barracks first, but it doesn't need a lot, just expressing your intentions is enough."

Li Yi'an continued: "These sugar canes are one of the ways I want to use them to change your lives. You should take back the sugar canes outside and store them as soon as possible. I will prepare some small tools and teach you how to use sugar cane to make money."

"General, are those things really okay?"

Immediately someone came to ask.

"I heard that the price of sugarcane in the north is very high. The general wants to sell the sugarcane in the north?"

"Some people have tried to do this before, but the sugarcane will be very heavy when there is too much sugarcane. The road from here to the north is far away and it is not easy to travel. Most of the sugarcane sent from here to the north is rotten, and only a small part can be sold. , It’s expensive but the money you can make is not that much.”

"How does the general make money with sugar cane?"

They said puzzledly.

The plan to directly sell the sugar cane is not very feasible. Li Yi'an wants to make cane sugar here, but he doesn't know how to explain it to them.

However, the process of making sugar has been around for a long time. First of all, natural sugar is honey, but this is more precious, and then there is a substitute, caramel. There is a record of caramel in the Book of Songs.

"Don't worry, I still need to make some tools, and I can give you an answer in a few days, but the premise is that you have to ensure a sufficient supply of sugar cane."

As soon as Li Yi'an's voice came out, everyone fell silent, and then nodded in agreement.

They trust Li Yi'an very much, since they will say so, they will definitely do it.

To settle the matter here, not long after Li Yi'an returned to the barracks, he saw the villagers bringing in sugarcane, basically one piece of sugarcane, but there were thousands of people in the barracks, just a few thousand. I have to say that those villagers really So enthusiastic.

"readily!"

Cheng Chumo picked up the sugarcane and took a big bite, the sugar bloomed in his mouth, it felt so comfortable.

"Much tastier than our caramel."

Su Lie said with a smile: "There are so many good things in the Southwest."

Li Dejian said: "That's for sure, as long as the place where the husband goes, there will be good things."

Li Yi'an first found some capable craftsmen, drew the tools for making sugar, and asked them to make the first batch, and then asked someone to see if there were tea trees or tea mountains near Erhai Lake.

"Baolin, find someone to go back to Chang'an quickly, find Fang Yucheng, and ask him to take the big ship from the canal to the Yangtze River after the spring of next year, and then come all the way in from the Yangtze River, and contact me when he arrives in Yuzhou."

Li Yi'an said.

"it is good!"

Yuchi Baolin nodded.

It is more difficult to transport things from the southwest region by land transportation.

Not to mention that this is the Yunnan-Guizhou plateau area, it is not easy to send things out, even if it is possible to send things out, the Shu Road in the north of Yaozhou is already difficult.

The difficulty of the Shu Road is as difficult as reaching the sky.

But things can be sent out through the Yangtze River. The Jinsha River here is one of the river systems of the Yangtze River. There are also Minjiang River, Jialing River and other water systems in central Shu, which can be used for shipping.

Even if the current here is too fast, their big boat can pass through stably, so it shouldn't be a big problem.

Yuzhou is in the water system of the Jialing River, and it can be reached by large ships, and it is also close to Yizhou. This is also convenient for Li Yi'an, and at the same time, it can transport some Shu brocade and other things from central Shu through the Yangtze River.

Anyway, the freight volume of the big ship is very large, and the cost is lower than that of manually pulling the goods with a horse-drawn cart.

After planning all these, the completion of Li Yi'an and other sugar making tools, as well as the promotion of external pilot projects have not been handled well.

As he said at the beginning, Rondo is gone, but the other families are still there, and their plans have not been completed.

"Next, deal with the rest of the family first."

Li Yi'an was thinking.

After shipping out the first batch of finished products, when the second big ship came here, he could basically weaken the power of those families.

It's just that Li Yi'an hasn't looked for the other families yet, instead they came to them first.

On the third day after burning the water village, before the sugar making tools were finished, several family leaders came to see Li Yi'an outside the barracks.

"Bring them in."

Li Yi'an said.

After a while, those people appeared in the main tent. They were a little surprised to see how young Li Yi'an was, and then slightly bowed their hands in salute.

"General Li, may I ask what you plan to do next?"

First of all, a member of a family said: "The general Li did something wrong before, which caused the turmoil in Yaozhou and caused many people to suffer. Now he has finally settled down. I hope General Li will not make mistakes again and take it as a warning."

Li Yi'an heard this as a warning to himself, and sneered, "Are you teaching me how to do things?"

"Don't dare!"

The man immediately lowered his head, his face full of fear.