Your Majesty, this is a report sent by various places. Since Your Majesty began to stimulate population, various places have applied to the imperial court for a large amount of material silver coins to provide benefits to ordinary people.
According to our estimates, this year. The imperial court's land tax revenue will drop to 10% of its original value, while local fiscal expenditures will more than triple.
A rough estimate showed that the imperial court would pay no less than 80 million silver coins to the local area to ensure its operation.
"Land tax revenue is not much in the first place, so if you don't have it, you won't collect it. Although these 80 million silver coins are a lot, the court can't afford it. For those grains and other things, let the local government approve and create records for them, and let those people take them. Please go to Qiming Chamber of Commerce to collect the food if you receive the note from the government."
Zhu Youjian said.
Qiming Chamber of Commerce is now a super chain of department stores and supermarkets in every county across the country.
As the money bag in Zhu Youjian's hand, Zhu Youjian would naturally choose to divert money to him.
However, although the Qiming Chamber of Commerce stalls are open, business in many places, especially those small places, is not as good as expected.
When the people receive food, even if only 10% of them buy something by the way, they can increase their income.
"Your Majesty, this is a questionnaire from the Qiming Chamber of Commerce. According to the table, the best-selling products in Ming Dynasty are tea, silk, porcelain, cloth and sugar frosting."
(Icing refers to sugar and rock sugar boiled from sugar cane. It is not a name for some kind of sugar condiment smeared on Western pastries)
"Tangshuang, it's decided this is it." Zhu Youjian was overjoyed after hearing the little eunuch's report.
Although sugar frosting has a history of more than 2,000 years in China.
China is one of the first countries in the world to produce sugar. The sugars produced in the early days mainly included maltose and sucrose, with maltose occupying a more important position.
There is a poem in "The Book of Songs - Daya" of the Western Zhou Dynasty in China: "The original Zhou is fertile, and the viola is as sweet as sugar." This means that the land in Zhou is very fertile, and even the viola and chicory are as sweet as malt sugar. It shows that maltose existed as far back as the Western Zhou Dynasty. Caramel is considered to be the earliest sugar produced in the world.
Maltose is a kind of sugar made from rice (starch) and malt through saccharification and boiling. It is thick and is commonly known as maltose. Since its creation in the Western Zhou Dynasty, it has been widely spread among the people and widely eaten. There are records of the consumption and production of malt sugar in the history books from the Western Zhou Dynasty to the Han Dynasty.
Eastern Zhou Dynasty. During the Warring States Period in the 4th century BC, there are already records of preliminary processing of sugar cane. There is this poem in Qu Yuan's "Chu Ci: Calling the Soul": "The turtles and cannons are more like pulp." The "昘" here means sugarcane, and the "昘pulp" is the juice obtained from sugarcane. It shows that during the Warring States Period, Chu State was able to carry out primitive processing of sugar cane.
In the "Three Kingdoms·Wu Shu·Biography of Sun Liang" written by Chen Shou of the Western Jin Dynasty, there is a description that Liang sent Huangmen to put silver bowls on top of each other, and took the sugar cane paste offered by Jiaozhou from Zhongzang officials... Jiaozhou is located in today's Guangdong and Guangxi, in the same south of China as the Chu State mentioned above, and is the earliest area for sugarcane sugar production. Sugarcane juice is a kind of liquid sugar in a viscous form. Sugarcane juice is concentrated and processed to a higher concentration (viscosity), which is easy to store and eat. The processing technology here has improved a lot.
In the "Qi Bian" written by Zhang Heng of the Eastern Han Dynasty, there is a sentence of "sand honey and stone honey". The word "shaye" here means that the sugar produced has tiny crystals, which can be regarded as the prototype of granulated sugar.
