This era is like this, the strong unscrupulously bully the weak, and then kidnap the weak to be slaves, and the Khitan people come to the border of the Great Song Dynasty every winter to fight the grass valley.

With the strength of the Great Song Dynasty, at least it is not enough to confront the Khitan at the moment, but it should not be a problem to bully and bully Jiaozhi.

Yang Huairen thinks so, and there is not much psychological pressure, living in a cruel world, if you don't learn to use cruelty, you can only accept cruelty in the end.

Of course, Yang Huairen felt that slavery was a kind of regression, a backward social system, and that there was still a large degree of slavery in Tibet and Southeast Asian countries, so they were backward.

Therefore, Yang Huairen decided not to treat the Jiaozhi refugees as slaves in the future, but as his own long-term laborers, as long as they work diligently, not only take care of food and housing, but also pay them wages, slowly assimilate them, change them, and let them willingly grow sugarcane for Yang Huairen.

I heard that in the sugarcane fields of Lingnan in later generations, the Chinese did not work hard to harvest, and they all spent money to hire people from the south to cross the border to work, since later generations could do this, then now Yang Huairen can naturally do the same.

The problem of labor has been solved in this way, so the rest, in addition to further improving the level of sugar refining technology, is only transportation and sales.

In terms of transportation, if you take the land route, transport the icing and stone honey from Lingnan to the north, or even to the Liao State to sell, this distance is too far.

In the current backward transportation, it takes a lot of manpower, material and financial resources to take such a trip, counting the losses along the way, then this business is too laborious.

After all, 10,000 stone frosting and 50,000 or 60,000 stone stone honey are definitely not a small amount.

At present, there are not many businessmen who go to Lingnan, largely because of the problem of transportation, their practice is to take the land route from Lingnan to Jingxiang, and then load the goods from the inland wharf by Dongting Lake, and then take the Yangtze River down to the south of the Yangtze River.

Jiangnan is the largest frosting market in the Great Song Dynasty, and it is well known that the people of Jiangnan like to eat sugar.

If you want to continue north, you can use the Grand Canal, as far north as Tokyo City, and if you want to bulk cargo to the northwest and Jingdong, you will have to use land transportation.

Yang Huairen thought about it, although this kind of transportation method seems troublesome, it is already the most affordable and practical method at the moment.

However, if you can go by sea, you can easily and quickly transport it to Jiangnan, as well as Dengzhou in Jingdong, and even directly to the Liaodong Peninsula.

For the same goods, if you take the sea route, dozens of large cargo ships will do, and the transportation cost will be almost less than one-tenth of the previous method, and the time can be reduced by half, and you don't have to worry about the loss on the road.

In this way, Yang Huairen suddenly smiled, and felt that his idea of setting up a naval army in the Wude Army was really wise and martial.

With their own water army, even the freight is saved, by the way, you can go to Liaodong to get some rare things back to the Great Song Dynasty to sell, ginseng, deer antlers, Dongzhu, medicinal materials and all kinds of mountain goods, in the Great Song Dynasty have a very good market.

He said to Lian'er, "You don't have to worry too much about labor and future transportation, your husband already has a plan in mind."

Just remember one thing, the sugar produced by our family will be sold in Liao first, and if it is not enough, we will collect frosting from other sugar factories and sell it in Liao. ”

When Yang Huairen planned to sell sugar to the Khitans before, Lian'er was worried that he would be said to be a traitor to the country if he did so, so she reminded, "If all the sugar produced by our family is sold to Liao, will there be a problem?"

Why don't we set a ratio and sell some of it to Liao, and then sell some of it in the Great Song Dynasty? In this way, when others criticize officials, we only say that it is a normal business, where to make money, where to sell. ”

Yang Huairen waved his hand, "No." This husband will naturally make it clear to His Majesty in the future, and His Majesty will definitely understand, so he won't care what others say about me. ”

Lian'er saw that Yang Huairen had made up her mind, although she didn't understand why the official had to do this, she still believed in the official's decision.

Yang Huairen actually doesn't have to hide from Wang Xialian, his wife, there is nothing to hide.

"Lian'er, the official told you why the official wanted to sell sugar to the Khitans.

The goods that the Khitans bought from our Great Song Dynasty were mainly wine, sugar, tea, iron, grain, cloth and silk. Our imperial court has regulations that iron and grain are forbidden to be sold in the north.

The national policy of the imperial court was also to restrict the development of the Liao State, but unfortunately it was useful at the beginning, but later the Liao State slowly developed, and restricting them in salt, iron and grain has no effect at all.

In the past twenty or thirty years, the Liao State has no shortage of grain at all, Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures are the grain producing areas, and later the Khitan people developed a large plain in the Liao River Valley in eastern Liaodong, although it is not as much grain as our Great Song Dynasty, but people have long been not short of grain.

Salt is dried by seawater, and Liao also has coasts and salt farms, plus they also have salt mines inland, and people are not short of salt at all.

In terms of ironware, the Khitan people found iron ore in Liaodong, and the output was very large, and they invited iron-making craftsmen and ironsmiths from the Western Regions and the Wa Kingdom, and their iron skills have also been developed in the long run, although they are not as good as our Great Song Dynasty, but the gap is not big.

Looking at the trade between the Song and Liao countries in recent years, it is mainly based on luxury goods, and the sugar and wine of our Great Song Dynasty, as well as silk and cloth, are the things they import the most.

I have been to Liao, and I have seen what Liaoguo is like, although the Khitan people are strong, but their people are not as good as the people of our Great Song Dynasty, so the civilians of Liaoguo cannot afford sugar.

Those who bought sugar, wine and silk were all nobles and rich people among the Khitans, and they were the same as the princes and nobles of our Great Song Dynasty and the rich and rich, and they all pursued the enjoyment of life.

When I was in the capital, although we lived in Zhuangzi, when those nobles went to our house to give gifts or negotiate business, you have also seen what they looked like, and what is their biggest characteristic in your impression? ”

Yang Huairen said and gestured in front of his belly, as if he was pregnant, and Lian'er couldn't help but cover her mouth and smile, "They are all rich, hehe." ”

"Hehe," Yang Huairen smiled, "yes, it's fat, why are they fat?" Because the food is so good, I usually feed myself with big fish and meat, greet myself with good wine and food, and don't exercise much, can I not get fat?

There is also an important point, that is, sugar, people eat more sugar, they are easy to get fat, and eating sugar fat is different from eating meat fat, eating sugar to get fat, the fat is too solid, and you can't lose it if you want to.

Now do you understand why the husband sells sugar specifically to the Khitans? ”